title: [Solitary distal femoral osteosarcoma in 89-year-old woman. Case report].
abstract: The authors describe the case of an 89-year-old patient with a one-month history of pain in the right knee and a pathological fracture of the distal femur. Excisional biopsy showed a classical osteogenic sarcoma. The patient died after six months of palliative surgical and oncological therapy; her primary disease generalised and progressed with numerous metastases. The authors discuss the possibilities of histological diagnostics of osteogenic sarcoma and its differential diagnosis. They draw attention to a possible occurrence of this type of sarcoma also in elderly patients, and not only in adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Ortopedicko-traumatologická klinika JLF UK a UNM v Martine.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Drímal
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adamicová
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nečas
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005266:Femoral Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D010166:Palliative Care