Abstract
Epithelioid osteosarcoma is an uncommon variant; only 4 cases have been reported in the jaw area, 2 of which were in the maxilla. A 22-year-old woman, in the eighth month of pregnancy, presented to the oral surgery clinic with a mass in the right maxilla that had rapidly expanded over the past 3 months. Computed tomography scans showed an ill-defined sclerotic destructive lesion that formed bone matrix in its soft tissue extension. Microscopic examination of the lesion revealed malignant epithelioid cells with osteoid deposits. The tumor cells were shown to have pale cytoplasm, vesicular nuclei, and prominent nucleoli and to undergo frequent mitosis. In addition, the tumor was positive for epithelial membrane antigen and vimentin and negative for AE1/AE3, Melan-A, CD30, synaptophysin, NSE, CD45, CD99, desmin, and myogenin. The final diagnosis was epithelioid osteosarcoma, which is a rare aggressive variant of osteosarcoma. Few cases of epithelioid osteosarcoma have been reported in the literature, and more studies are required to determine the clinical behavior of this tumor.
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