1. Askin (PNET) Tumor Unmasked by Trauma in a Young Male Patient.
- Author
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Ray AC, Aditya S, Jana PK, Chatterjee A, Sarkar A, Mehta J, and Mukhopadhyay J
- Subjects
- Biomarkers, Tumor, Biopsy, Bone Neoplasms therapy, Cyclophosphamide administration & dosage, Cyclophosphamide therapeutic use, Cytoreduction Surgical Procedures, Doxorubicin administration & dosage, Doxorubicin therapeutic use, Humans, Immunohistochemistry, Male, Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive therapy, Pleural Effusion, Sarcoma, Ewing therapy, Thoracic Neoplasms therapy, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Vincristine administration & dosage, Vincristine therapeutic use, Young Adult, Bone Neoplasms diagnostic imaging, Bone Neoplasms pathology, Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive diagnostic imaging, Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive pathology, Sarcoma, Ewing diagnostic imaging, Sarcoma, Ewing pathology, Thoracic Neoplasms diagnostic imaging, Thoracic Neoplasms pathology
- Abstract
A young male labourer developed pain at the site of blunt trauma over back of chest followed by fever, cough with expectoration, breathlessness and hemorrhagic pleural effusion in the side of injury. What could have been passed as a sequel of trauma turned out to be the consequences of an underlying rare and aggressive malignant tumor of the chest wall known as Askin tumor or Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET). CT thorax with guided FNAC, debulking operation, histopathological examination followed by immunohistochemistry of the tumor tissue led to the final diagnosis. Chemotherapy was administered following surgical resection. The patient died within nine months after diagnosis., (© Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 2011.)
- Published
- 2016