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Despite extensive documentation of genomic alterations in osteosarcoma, studies detailing the immunosuppressive mechanisms within the metastatic osteosarcoma microenvironment are lacking. Our objective was to characterize the spatial transcriptional landscape of metastatic osteosarcoma to reveal these immunosuppressive mechanisms and identify promising therapeutic targets. Here, we performed spatial transcriptional profiling on a cohort of osteosarcoma pulmonary metastases from pediatric patients. We reveal a conserved spatial gene expression pattern resembling a foreign body granuloma, characterized by peripheral inflammatory signaling, fibrocollagenous encapsulation, lymphocyte exclusion, and peritumoral macrophage accumulation. We also show that the intratumoral microenvironment of these lesions lack inflammatory signaling. 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