title: Paraparesis due to spinal leiomyosarcoma lesion in the thoracic spine accompanied by two leiomyosarcoma lesions in the back and the thigh over an interval of 4 years.
abstract: We present an 83-year-old man who developed three different leiomyosarcoma lesions in the thigh, back, and thoracic spine. The pathology of the thigh tumour was pleomorphic leiomyosarcoma. MRI after 4 years showed a vertebral bone lesion associated with spinal cord compression at T7 and a paravertebral mass lesion at T9-T10. Surgical treatment for the spinal lesion which caused paraparesis improved the neurological symptoms. The pathological features of the lesions in the back and spine were identical and rather distinct from those of the previous thigh lesion. Spinal leiomyosarcoma causing paraparesis and the two other with soft-tissue leiomyosarcoma lesions with different pathological features in a single patient over a period of 4 years is an extremely rare occurrence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Japan. ki7471@kchnet.or.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ido
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Urushidani
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001415:Back; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013848:Thigh; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae