Primary bone angiosarcoma in a patient with Gaucher disease

Int J Hematol. 2010 Sep;92(2):374-7. doi: 10.1007/s12185-010-0643-4. Epub 2010 Jul 27.

Abstract

Skeletal pain and the resulting skeletal complications are common in Gaucher disease. The patients therefore usually receive symptomatic treatment and only rarely undergo additional diagnostic procedures. The paper describes the case of a patient with Gaucher disease who had advancing pain in the right knee and femur, which was first attributed to the basic disease. After a pathological fracture of the painful part of the leg, it became evident that the patient suffered from primary bone angiosarcoma. From this case, we learnt that not every skeletal pain in Gaucher disease represents a skeletal manifestation of this disease. Further surgical treatment was made difficult by the thrombocyte dysfunction discovered in the patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bone Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Bone Neoplasms / therapy
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Fractures, Bone
  • Gaucher Disease / complications*
  • Hemangiosarcoma / diagnosis*
  • Hemangiosarcoma / therapy
  • Humans
  • Leg / pathology
  • Middle Aged