Chronic osteomyelitis mimicking sarcoma
- 1Department of Pathology, Blackrock Clinic and Department of Pathology, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
- 2Department of Surgery, Blackrock Clinic, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland
- 3Department of Radiology, Blackrock Clinic
- Correspondence to: Dr C Gulmann, Department of Pathology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland; cgulmann{at}rcsi.ie
- Accepted 23 October 2002
Abstract
This report describes a rare case of chronic osteomyelitis in a 60 year old man mimicking a soft tissue sarcoma. Chronic osteomyelitis is an infrequent cause of a soft tissue mass and is usually diagnosed clinically by a combination of radiology and microbiology. Rarely, COM can mimic a primary bony neoplasm, but this is the first reported case where it mimicked a soft tissue sarcoma. The clinical, radiological, and histological appearances of this case will be discussed.
