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KMID : 0613320030090010093
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Journal of the Korean Bone and Joint Tumor Soceity
2003 Volume.9 No. 1 p.93 ~ p.100
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Malignant Tumor Mistaken for Infection or Stress Fracture-4 cases report
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Han Chung-Soo
Lee Young-Ho
Ha Jeong-Han
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Abstract
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Clinical outcome of malignant tumor heavily depends on early diagnosis and proper management of the patient. But it´s very difficult to diagnose malignant tumor in early stage because of it´s vague symptoms and inadequate evidences of malignancy in radiologic studies and biopsy. Malignant tumor mistaken for infection or fracture initially will undergo inadequate treatment and that will influence on it´s prognosis. So it´s very important to rule out the possibility of malignancy by repeated evaluation if it´s diagnosis is not definite. We report 1 cases of osteosarcoma initially mistaken for stress fracture and 3 cases of osteosarcoma, malignant lymphoma and Ewing´s sarcoma initially mistaken for tuberculosis and review the literature.
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KEYWORD
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Malignant tumor, Infection, Fracture
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