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Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
Ewing's sarcoma of scapula: a rare entity
  1. Mohammad Shahid1,
  2. Manoranjan Varshney1,
  3. Veena Maheshwari1,
  4. Aysha Mubeen1,
  5. Mohammed Azfar Siddiqui2,
  6. Julfiqar Julfiqar3,
  7. Kavita Gaur1
  1. 1Department of Pathology, J N Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
  2. 2Department of Radiodiagnosis, J N Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
  3. 3Department of Orthopaedics, J N Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kavita Gaur, kavgaur{at}gmail.com

Summary

Ewing's sarcoma is the second most common malignant bone tumour of childhood and adolescence. It may affect any bone, but it is frequent in the femur, ilium and the tibia. Here the authors are reporting a case of Ewing's sarcoma involving scapula in a 14-year-old boy presenting with pain and swelling around the shoulder. Swelling was removed which on histopathological examination showed solid sheets closely packed, poorly differentiated small cells that have a high nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio, fine chromatin and small nucleoli. A tentative diagnosis of Ewing's sarcoma was made which was confirmed by immunohistochemistry.

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