Key result
Primary Ewing sarcoma of the lung, an exceedingly rare variant of extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma, presented as a locally invasive right lung mass in a 43-year-old woman.
Why the study?
Primary Ewing sarcoma of the lung is an exceedingly uncommon variant of extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma, with only a small number of cases reported in the literature.
Highlights a rare presentation of primary extraskeletal Ewing Sarcoma in the lung.
Expands sparse reports of primary pulmonary Ewing sarcoma; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Extraskeletal Ewing Sarcoma is a rare tumor of the soft tissues. Primary Ewing Sarcoma of the lung is an exceedingly uncommon variant of Extraskeletal Ewing Sarcoma, with only a small number of cases reported in the literature. We present a case of a 43-year-old woman who presented with a locally invasive mass of the right lung, biopsy-proven to be Ewing Sarcoma.
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Gibbons et al. (2024) studied this question. Primary Ewing sarcoma of the lung, an exceedingly rare variant of extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma, presented as a locally invasive right lung mass in a 43-year-old woman.
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