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ArticleCureus2023

Pulmonary Metastases From Primary Thigh Leiomyosarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Prabasha Weeraddana, Hedaya Othman, Ragaa Elkabbani, Susanna Josey, Nisha Nepal, Eric Ma

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Prabasha WeeraddanaInternal medicine, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, USA.
Hedaya OthmanInternal Medicine, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, USA.
Ragaa ElkabbaniPathology, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, USA.
Susanna JoseyInternal Medicine, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, USA.
Nisha NepalInternal Medicine, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, USA.
Eric MaHematology and Oncology, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, USA.
Danbury Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leiomyosarcoma is a rare type of tumor of smooth muscle cells that can occur anywhere in the body. However, it typically occurs in the retroperitoneum, intra-abdominal sites, and uterus in people over 65. Here is a case of a 71-year-old male with a history of melanoma of the skin who presented with a rapidly enlarging, non-tender lump at his left lateral thigh area that was later diagnosed as pleomorphic dedifferentiated leiomyosarcoma. The patient underwent radical resection of the tumor and the attached vastus lateralis muscle and partial lateral collateral ligament, followed by radiation therapy to the resected site. He had no evidence of tumor recurrence on follow-up imaging for several months until he was found to have metastatic disease to the lungs on a surveillance CT one year later. A biopsy confirmed that the lung nodules were leiomyosarcoma metastases, and the patient was started on chemotherapy and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). Upon reviewing the literature, a few cases of leiomyosarcoma arising from the thigh muscles were found.

Indexed as

leiomyosarcoma of somatic soft tissuesleiomyosarcoma of the thigh“literature review”pulmonary metastasisssttumor of smooth muscle cell

Identifiers

PMID37378190
PMCPMC10292185
OpenAlexW4378574224

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