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CC BY 4.0 · Rev Bras Ortop (Sao Paulo) 2024; 59(S 01): e98-e100
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1757302
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Excision of a Solitary Fibrous Tumor in the Sciatic Notch with Sciatic Nerve Compression – A Rare Clinical Case

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1   Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
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1   Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
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1   Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
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1   Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
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1   Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
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1   Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
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Abstract

We present the clinical case of a 41-year-old woman with no relevant personal history. The patient complained of diffuse self-limiting abdominal pain, and we incidentally detected an extra-abdominal, extraperitoneal tumor mass at the level of the right sciatic notch. The abdominal complaints were gone during the initial follow-up, but the patient developed sciatica radiating to the right foot and electric shock-like pain. A computed tomography (CT)-guided biopsy revealed a low-grade mesenchymal neoplasm of the soft tissues with characteristics consistent with a solitary extrapleural fibrous tumor. The pelvis team of the orthopedics department received the patient for surgical excision of the lesion. The procedure occurred with no complications, and we excised the totality of the lesion with tumor-free margins. An anatomopathological examination was compatible with the biopsy assessment. The excision of the lesion resulted in complete resolution of the sciatic nerve compression-related symptoms.

Study carried out at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.




Publication History

Received: 02 July 2022

Accepted: 17 August 2022

Article published online:
31 July 2023

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