2004 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 79-85
An 8-year-old girl was admitted to hospital because of left hip and knee joint pain. We found a tumor in her left iliopsoas muscle, which was diagnosed as a synovial sarcoma. She received chemotherapy and radiotherapy at another hospital, but the tumor showed no response to the treatments. Metastatic humerus bone tumor developed, and she needed morphine derived analgesics. She was introduced to our hospital again, and we started hyperthermia treatment, after that her retroperitoneal tumor decreased in size. We have already performed hyperthermic therapy 27 times. She became not to ask for the analgetic drug and could go to school from her home. In this case, the significance of the treatment is that the tumor response was observed with hyperthermia alone.