Sternal metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma treated by near-total sternectomy and reconstruction with titanium sternal stabilization and fixation system

Ömer Soysal; Sedat Ziyade; Selma Sönmez Ergün; Nur Büyükpınarbaşılı; Osman Cemil Akdemir

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.7551

Ömer Soysal¹, Sedat Ziyade¹, Selma Sönmez Ergün², Nur Büyükpınarbaşılı³, Osman Cemil Akdemir¹

¹Departments of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Bezmialem Vakıf University, İstanbul, Turkey
²Departments of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Bezmialem Vakıf University, İstanbul, Turkey
³Departments of Pathology, Medical Faculty of Bezmialem Vakıf University, İstanbul, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.7551

Uterine leiomyosarcomas are rare soft tissue neoplasms. Although they have a tendency to metastasize to distant organs, most commonly to the lung, liver and brain, rarely, sternal metastasis from a uterine leiomyosarcoma can occur. In this article, we report a 50-year-old female patient whose uterine leiomyosarcoma was treated with total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salphingooopherectomy, and who developed sternal metastasis five years later, which was completely resected and successfully repaired during the same session.

Keywords : Leiomyosarcoma; metastasis; sternum

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