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Case Reports
. 2015 Jul 1;2015(7):rjv070.
doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjv070.

Primary orbital Ewing's sarcoma presenting with local recurrence to maxillary sinus shortly after tumor resection

Selam Yekta Sendul  1 , Cemile Ucgul  2 , Fevziye Kabukcuoglu  3 , Burcu Dirim  4 , Dilek Guven  4
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Case Reports

Primary orbital Ewing's sarcoma presenting with local recurrence to maxillary sinus shortly after tumor resection

Selam Yekta Sendul et al. J Surg Case Rep. .

Abstract

Ewing's sarcoma (ES) is a malignant, small-round-cell neoplasm that normally affects the long bones of the limbs or the pelvis. Primary orbital ES of the skull has been considered extremely rare. We describe the case of a 19-year-old female patient with primary ES originating from the inferior orbital rime and, shortly after tumor resection, local recurrence to the maxillary sinus.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
(a) A 19-year-old female patient with an immobile mass in the right inferior temporal location. (b) The MRI results of the patient show a mass fixed to the inferior orbital wall.
Figures 2:
Figures 2:
(a and b) The emergency MRI results of the patient who had complaints of infraorbital anesthesia in the postoperative week 3 revealed a mass invading the right maxillary sinus and probably compressing on the infraorbital nerve.
Figures 3:
Figures 3:
(a–c) Round-shaped, narrow eosinophilic cytoplasm cells with hyperchromatic nuclei (b: PAS+ and c: CD99+).
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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