Ewing sarcoma

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  • Epidemiology
    • Children, adolescents
    • Boys > girls
  • Clinical features
    • Can occur in any bone
      • Most often in diaphysis of long bones
    • Highly malignant
    • Night pain
    • B symptoms
  • Diagnosis
    • Resembles osteomyelitis on x-ray, MRI and histology
    • Immunohistological staining or PCR helps to differentiate
  • Treatment
    • Neoadjuvant polychemo + limb-sparing surgery + adjuvant polychemo
    • Radiation may also be used