Podiatry and Medical - Set 2

Answer − D − If an X-ray of the leg shows a mass in the distal femur that extends into the soft tissue and the biopsy shows translocation of chromosomes 11 and 22, the patient’s diagnosis is Ewing sarcoma. It is a malignant neoplasm of the bone that originates in the medullary canal and is composed of small uniform round cells and often occurs in teenage males.