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ArticleCureus2023

Limb Salvage Surgery in a Voluminous Malignant Quadriceps Tumor.

Muhammad Z Farooq, Muhammad B Shafiq, Ilyas Rafi, Sajid Ali

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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. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Muhammad Z FarooqSurgical Oncology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, PAK.
Muhammad B ShafiqSurgical Oncology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, PAK.
Ilyas RafiSurgical Oncology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, PAK.
Sajid AliPaediatric Surgical Oncology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, PAK.
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is uncommon for soft tissue sarcomas to develop after adenocarcinoma of the rectum. In a treated rectal adenocarcinoma patient, we encountered a huge malignant quadriceps tumor as leiomyosarcoma and salvaged the limb. A 49-year-old male known case of treated moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma of the rectum presented in the Orthopedic Clinic with a new swelling in his left thigh. MRI of the left lower limb was obtained, and it demonstrated a large 15.8 x 13.2 x 30 cm well-defined mixed solid cystic lesion in the anterolateral aspect of the left mid-thigh without the involvement of adjacent bony cortex. Limb salvage surgery with wide local excision of the tumor was done. The patient was ambulated full weight from the very next day with a Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Score (MSTS) score of 20. Despite the massive size of the tumor, limb salvage was attempted successfully and achieved good functional status.

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limb salvagequadriceps tumorsarcomasecondary malignancytumor surgery

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PMID37868574
PMCPMC10590199
OpenAlexW4386917408

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