Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Ew·ing's sarcoma Pronunciation:
'yü-i[ng]z- Function:
noun : a tumor that invades the shaft of a long bone and that tends to recurbut rarely metastasizes called also
Ewing's tumor Ewing, James (1866–1943), American pathologist. Ewing was a recognized authority on the diagnosis and managementof neoplastic diseases and the author of a standard text on the subject. His description of reticulum cell sarcoma was published in 1913. He described the disease now known as Ewing's sarcoma or tumorin 1921.
