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  • Impact Factor: 0.285**
  • H-Index: 6
  • ISSN: 2638-4558
  • DOI: 10.25107/2638-4558
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Major Scope

  •  Hepatitis
  •  ENT
  •  Medical Radiography
  •  Cardiovascular Medicine
  •  Nuclear Medicine
  •  Physiology
  •  Inflammation
  •  Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Abstract

Citation: Clin Case Rep Int. 2017;1(1):1008.DOI: 10.25107/2638-4558.1008

An Aggressive Small Round Blue Malignancy in the Intensive Care Unit

Loh CH, Tan SH and Tee KH

Department of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, Changi General Hospital, Singapore

*Correspondance to: Loh CH 

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Abstract:

Ewing sarcoma family of tumors is highly aggressive, with common local recurrence and distant metastases. Histologically they appear as small round blue cells, but this is nonspecific with broad differentials. The ESWR1 break-apart rearrangement using fluorescence in-situ hybridization is pathognomonic for Ewing’s sarcoma. Patients with extra skeletal Ewing sarcoma family have a poor prognosis, with median survival ranging between 8 to 15 months in two different case series. Among patients with cancer, approximately 5% develop a critical illness requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. We report a case of a young female who developed acute respiratory failure secondary to this rare malignancy that required intensive care treatment. Unlike other reported cases, our patient had a large lung and mediastinal mass with pleura but no bony involvement, associated massive pleural effusion necessitating chest tube insertion, subsequent intensive care admission with invasive ventilatory support. This case highlights the importance of supportive intensive care needed to treat this aggressive disease mainly affecting children and young adults.

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Loh CH, Tan SH, Tee KH. An Aggressive Small Round Blue Malignancy in the Intensive Care Unit. Clin Case Rep Int. 2017; 1: 1008.

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