Osseous Metaplasia in Adenocarcinoma
Published: December 1, 2018 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2018/37941.12379
Phiza Aggarwal, RPS Punia, Robin Kaushik, Manveen Kaur, Deepak Aggarwal
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
2. Professor, Department of Pathology, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
3. Professor, Department of General Surgery, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
4. Senior Resident, Department of Pathology, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
5. Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Phiza Aggarwal,
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Level-3, Block-E, Government College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh, UT, India.
E-mail: drphiza@hotmail.com
Osseous Metaplasia (OM) or heterotopic ossification is a rare phenomenon with unknown aetiology that is characterised by the formation of mature bone elements in the stroma of different tumours. Awareness of this condition is important to avoid diagnostic confusion with carcinosarcoma and local bone invasions that have different lines of treatment and prognosis. Here, authors report two cases of heterotopic ossification in adenocarcinoma of sigmoid colon and lung and provide salient features that could help to detect the condition.
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