title: Primary breast osteosarcoma: a case report and review of literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Primary soft tissue sarcomas are uncommon. We report a case of primary breast osteosarcoma which was treated successfully. This case report is combined with a literature review of this rare breast malignancy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Electronic literature search of databases: Pubmed/Medline, Ovid and EMBASE, in addition to the search engines Google/Google Scholar and Bing. The keywords used were breast osteosarcoma, soft tissue sarcoma and breast cancer. Searches were screened and those studies thought to be relevant had full text versions retrieved. The references to all retrieved texts were searched for further relevant studies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Primary breast osteosarcoma is a rare breast malignancy that affects elderly patients. Diagnosis is often challenging and can be debatable due to its rarity, non-specific radiological findings and the complicated histopathological subtypes. Surgery is the treatment of choice.
authors.affiliation: Speciality Registrar in General Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Wansbeck General Hospital, UK ahmadas@doctors.org.uk.
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al Samaraee
authors.affiliation: SHO in General Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: Nithia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Angamuthu
authors.affiliation: Consultant Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: Tarannum
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fasih
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001365:Axilla; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000379:methods*; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Breast osteosarcoma; breast cancer; soft tissue sarcoma