title: Spontaneous Regression of Metastatic Extraskeletal Myxoid Chondrosarcoma.
abstract: Spontaneous regression of tumors is very unusual and is defined as a partial or complete disappearance of metastatic tumors without any treatment. This phenomenon has been reported in almost all types of cancer. The patient was a 25-year-old woman who presented with multiple pulmonary nodules on her bilateral lungs on the annual chest roentgenograph. Simultaneously, a swelling mass on her subcutaneous inguinal region was observed. The diagnosis of the inguinal mass was extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma. The inguinal mass and pulmonary nodules spontaneously regressed without any treatment after biopsy. The patient was doing well without evidence of recurrence at 1 year after the operation without any additional therapy. Our case is the first clinical one that indicated a possibility of histologic regression of extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: t.kinoshita@a7.keio.jp.
authors.forename: Tomonari
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Ikuo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kamiyama
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asakura
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohtsuka
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Mitsutomo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kohno
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Katsura
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Emoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morioka
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Hisao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Asamura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D018204:Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue / Q000556:secondary*