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Primary cutaneous extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma/PNET: possibility of better prognosis than deep ES/PNET Volume 24, issue 1, January-February 2014

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Authors
Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital
1-1, 2-Chome,
Minatojima Minami-cho,
Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan

Extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma (ES) and Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumour (PNET) were first described by Angerval and Enzinger in 1975 [1]. Primary ES/PNET arising in skin is distinctly rare [2-6]. Unlike ES/PNET in deep soft tissue, which has a poor prognosis, cutaneous and subcutaneous ES seem to be associated with an indolent course and a favourable prognosis [3-5, 7]. We report a case of cutaneous ES (CES) in a young adult and additionally review the cases of CES which have been previously reported [...]