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Rare disease
CASE REPORT
A rare case of giant cell tumour (GCT) of bone with lung metastases
  1. Dheerendra Kumar Sachan1,
  2. Nupur Bansal1,
  3. Surabhi Gupta2,
  4. Sanjeev Kumar1
  1. 1Department of Radiotherapy, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India
  2. 2SN Medical College, Agra, UP, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Nupur Bansal, drnupurbansal{at}gmail.com

Summary

A case of 16-year-old girl with giant cell tumour of right fibula is presented to us with bilateral lung metastases. In view of widespread bilateral lung metastatic lesions, the patient was given multimodality treatment. Chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy to the local site as well as lung bath has been given and has shown good response.

  • chemotherapy
  • radiotherapy

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221667

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors DKS: conception of the work, analysis, interpretation of data, drafting and final revision. SG: design of the work, analysis and interpretation of data. NB and SK: drafting and final revision.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Guardian consent obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.