title: Primary leiomyosarcoma of bone: a report on three patients.
abstract: Primary leiomyosarcoma of bone is a rare aggressive tumor that occurs mainly in older people. It resembles other malignancies clinically and radiologically, and differential diagnosis is based on histopathology, including immunohistochemistry. If leiomyosarcoma is found in bone, the possibility that it is a metastasis from a distant tumor should be investigated. The treatment is surgical excision with wide margins. Here we present three patients who had primary leiomyosarcoma of radius, ilium, and femur, respectively, and who were treated surgically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Fatih University, Alparslan Turkes Caddesi No. 57, 06510 Emek/Ankara, Turkey. atalarhakan@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Hakan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Atalar
authors.forename: Cuneyd
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gunay
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yildiz
authors.forename: Yener
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Saglik
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005266:Femoral Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011884:Radius; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed