Sarcoma arising adjacent to a total hip arthroplasty.
We present the case of a 79-year-old woman who developed a high grade spindle cell sarcoma adjacent to total hip arthroplasty 13 years after the index operation. MRI scan appeared to show a direct communication between the tumour and intra medullary canal through a breach in the femoral cortex.
Rana
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University Department of Orthopaedics, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, G 11 6NT.
Shetty
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Grigoris
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Reid
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D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*