Rajendra Sakhrekar, Carlo Iorio, Samuel Yoon, Maria Pia Monjardino, Stephen Lewis, Randolph Gray
INTRODUCTION: Ewing sarcoma (ES) is a malignant and aggressive bony tumor affecting the most common age group of 5-20 years. It constitutes 10%-15% of all bone sarcomas and is the second most common primary malignant bone tumor after osteosarcoma. It usually presents with pain, which is typically constant and progressive in nature. The primary source of pain is due to the instability of the spine to support the weight of the body, the vertebral body's expanding cortices due to the growing mass, compression of nerve roots due to tumour mass, pathologic fractures, spinal cord compression, and invasion of tissue by the tumour mass...
March 2024: Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports