submitted on 2023-10-25, 06:34 and posted on 2023-10-25, 08:41authored byAnam M. Elarabi, Mousa Hussein, Aisha Aladab
<p dir="ltr">An elderly gentleman presented with bilateral pulmonary nodules found incidentally during the workup of acute pancreatitis. He did not have any respiratory or urogenital symptoms. A biopsy of the lung nodule revealed myxoid mesenchymal neoplasm of extraosseous origin. As the patient was asymptomatic, only the increased uptake in the penile shaft base on the whole-body PET-CT study yielded a diagnosis of primary penile chondrosarcoma after biopsy. A rare presentation of chondrosarcoma in an elderly gentleman highlighting the importance of obtaining a histopathological specimen, as the prognosis of metastatic diseases is widely variable.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Respiratory Medicine Case Reports<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101482" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101482</a></p>
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