Lung metastasis 21 years after initial diagnosis of osteosarcoma: a case report
Ari Halldorsson, Steven Brooks, Sam Montgomery, Suzanne Graham
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA;  Department of Pathology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
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Introduction: To the best of our knowledge, this case report describes the longest disease-free interval between primary diagnosis and metastatic recurrence of an osteosarcoma.

Case presentation: A 35-year-old Caucasian American man presented with asymptomatic lung metastases 21 years after being diagnosed and treated for lower extremity osteosarcoma. He underwent curative lung resection, but 2 years thereafter developed metastatic disease in the scapula and tibia and, after resection and chemotherapy, is in remission 1 year later.

Conclusion: This case highlights the importance of long follow-up periods and continued surveillance of osteosarcoma patients after initial curative treatment.

This article was published in Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009, 3:9298; doi:10.1186/1752-1947-3-9298.

© 2009 Halldorsson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 
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