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Case Report

Volume 6, Issue 10 (October Issue)

Unmasking Ewing Sarcoma Behind a Hemothorax

Roma Mehta*

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UTSW Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

*Corresponding author: Roma Mehta, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UTSW Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
E-mail: Roma.Mehta@UTSouthwestern.edu

Received: September 11, 2024; Accepted: September 28, 2024; Published: October 15, 2024

Citation: Mehta R. Unmasking Ewing’s Sarcoma Behind a Hemothorax. Clin Image Case Rep J. 2024; 6(10): 425.

Unmasking Ewing Sarcoma Behind a Hemothorax
Abstract

Hemothorax is a rare de novo presentation of Ewing’s sarcoma, which is a common malignancy of bones in children and young adults with a male predilection. Ewing’s sarcoma can rarely affect extra-skeletal sites including the lung and when this sarcoma arises from extraosseous sites, they are found to have neuroectodermal tissue [3]. The incidence of hemothorax presenting as the first manifestation of Ewing sarcoma is unknown, as there are so far, to our knowledge, only a few case reports that have described this phenomenon, of which the majority of cases were reported in children less than 15 years old [1-5]. Here we present the case of a 20 year old female patient who presented with a massive hemothorax leading to hemorrhagic shock as her initial presentation of Ewing’s sarcoma.