Primary osteosarcoma of the clavicle and the perils of bone biopsy.

BMJ Case Rep

Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

Published: April 2015

We present a rare case of delayed diagnosis of osteosarcoma of the medial clavicle in a young man. He presented following a pathological fracture with a falsely reassuring core and fine-needle aspiration biopsy. The initial biopsy was suggestive of an aneurysmal bone cyst and was therefore treated conservatively without further follow-up. The rapid increase in size over the next 8 months triggered a repeat presentation and subsequent repeat biopsy. The open biopsy confirmed high-grade osteosarcoma and the patient underwent claviculectomy with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420830PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2014-208859DOI Listing

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