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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2020

Maxillary mesenchymal chondrosarcoma leading to a diagnosis of Li-Fraumeni syndrome.

Eduardo Ventura, Sílvia Dionísio, Ângela Ferreira, Rute Saleiro, Hugo Marques, Manuel Magalhães, Carlos Monteiro

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Extra-skeletal intracranial mesenchymal chondrosarcoma: systematic-literature review.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eduardo VenturaMaxillofacial Surgery Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Sílvia DionísioMaxillofacial Surgery Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Ângela FerreiraMaxillofacial Surgery Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Rute SaleiroMaxillofacial Surgery Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Hugo MarquesMaxillofacial Surgery Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Manuel MagalhãesOncology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Carlos MonteiroMaxillofacial Surgery Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Centro Hospitalar do Porto · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma (MCS) is a rare histological variant of chondrosarcoma, with aggressive behaviour. Due to the unique nature of this disease, management strategies are not well established. Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a rare cancer predisposition syndrome with a wide tumour spectrum, associated with TP53 germline mutations. We report a case of MCS of the maxilla, treated with surgical excision and adjuvant chemotherapy, in a patient with a past medical history of choroid plexus papilloma and a family history of early age first-degree cervical uterine cancer, that led to the clinical suspicion of a cancer predisposition syndrome and the subsequent diagnosis of LFS. This is the first MCS described in a LFS case. It demonstrates that adjuvant chemotherapy should be considered, in conjunction with surgical excision, in MCS and that cancer predisposition syndromes should be suspected in patients with multiple neoplasms and a strong family history of cancer.

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cancer predispositionLi-Fraumeni syndromemaxillamesenchymal chondrosarcoma

Identifiers

PMID31976063
PMCPMC6963167
OpenAlexW2999072259

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