Successful Treatment of Osteosarcoma Arising in Osteogenesis Imperfecta with High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Followed-by Limb Sparing Surgery

Selmin Ataergin; Fikret Arpaci; Kaan Erler; Bahtiyar Demiralp; Ilker Cicek; Cuneyt Ulutin; Luis Solchaga; Ayhan Ozcan

doi:10.1177/117955490700100001

Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology (Jan 2007)

Successful Treatment of Osteosarcoma Arising in Osteogenesis Imperfecta with High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Followed-by Limb Sparing Surgery

Selmin Ataergin,
Fikret Arpaci,
Kaan Erler,
Bahtiyar Demiralp,
Ilker Cicek,
Cuneyt Ulutin,
Luis Solchaga,
Ayhan Ozcan

Affiliations

Selmin Ataergin: Departments of Medical Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit.
Fikret Arpaci: Departments of Medical Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit.
Kaan Erler: Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Bahtiyar Demiralp: Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Ilker Cicek: Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Cuneyt Ulutin: Radiation Oncology, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Luis Solchaga: Case Western Reserve University, Ireland Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Ayhan Ozcan: Pathology, Ireland Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/117955490700100001
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1

Abstract

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We present a 20-year-old male patient with localized osteosarcoma arising in osteogenesis imperfecta who underwent high-dose chemotherapy together with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation followed-by a successful extremity sparing surgery.

Published in Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology

ISSN: 1179-5549 (Online)
Publisher: SAGE Publishing
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
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