Pleural Effusion Revealing a Diagnosis of Ewing Sarcoma

Khaled Ali; Mhd Baraa Habib; Noheir M Taha; Ahmed M Abdalhadi; Riyadh Hammamy

doi:10.7759/cureus.20439

Pleural Effusion Revealing a Diagnosis of Ewing Sarcoma

Cureus. 2021 Dec 15;13(12):e20439. doi: 10.7759/cureus.20439. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Authors

Khaled Ali¹, Mhd Baraa Habib², Noheir M Taha³, Ahmed M Abdalhadi⁴, Riyadh Hammamy⁵

Affiliations

¹ Community Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
² Internal Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
³ Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
⁴ Medical Education, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
⁵ Medicine, Al Khor Hospital, Al Khor, QAT.

Abstract

Pleural effusion can rarely present as an initial manifestation of Ewing sarcoma. We illustrate a case of a young male adult who was admitted with pleural effusion that led to the diagnosis of Ewing sarcoma.

Keywords: bone tumors; ewing sarcoma (es); pathology; pleural fluid (pf); pulmonology.

Publication types

Case Reports