Primary telangiectatic osteosarcoma of occipital bone: a case report and review of literature

Neurol India. 2011 Jan-Feb;59(1):117-9. doi: 10.4103/0028-3886.76891.

Abstract

Telangiectatic osteosarcoma (TOS), an uncommon variant of osteosarcoma, involving skull bones is extremely rare. We present clinico-pathological, imageological and treatment outcome of a primary TOS of occipital bone in a 30-year-old woman and review the previously reported skull bone TOS. We suggest that TOS should be included in the differential diagnosis of destructive lytic lesions involving the skull bones. As radical surgical procedures are not applicable to skull bones, the outcome is poor even with adjuvant chemotherapy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bone Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Bone Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
  • Occipital Bone / diagnostic imaging
  • Occipital Bone / pathology*
  • Osteosarcoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Osteosarcoma / pathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods