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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
On-line version ISSN 1025-0255
Abstract
ALVAREZ LOPEZ, Alejandro; GARCIA LORENZO, Yenima and CASANOVA MOROTE, Carlos. Osteosarcoma: a case report. AMC [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.3. ISSN 1025-0255.
A patient of 16 years with osteogenous osteosarcoma diagnosis located in the third distal of the right femur is presented, it was carried out to him a biopsy followed by preoperative chemotherapy, later it was performed to him disarticulation at hip level. The main objective of this investigation is to carry out a revision of this infrequent illness in the boy, and to stand out its importance in the premature diagnosis and the conduct to follow.
Keywords : osteosarcoma; case studies.