Neglected giant dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans

Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans.

Overview The NCCN Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Panel has developed these guidelines outlining the treatment of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) to supplement their other guidelines (NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology [NCCN Guidelines] for Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Skin Cancers and Merkel Cell Carcinoma; to view the most recent version of these guidelines, visit the NCCN Web site...

Giant dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans of the anterior chest wall.

Please cite this article as: el Hammoumi MM, Abouchadi A, Kabiri EH. Dermatofibrosarcoma gigante de la pared torácica anterior. Arch Bronconeumol. 2015;51:299-300. ∗ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.M. el Hammoumi). dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans located in the skin above the sternon of a 31-year-old woman (Fig. 1) that was resected after pathological diagnosi...

A Challenging Giant Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans on the Face

Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a malignant fibrohistiocytic tumor that appears exclusively on the skin. It is a low-grade malignant soft tissue tumor of subcutaneous tissues that has a propensity for local recurrence but seldom metastasizes. It may rarely occur on the head and neck accounting for less than one percent of total head and neck malignancies. We present a man with a giant...

Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans in Childhood

Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans in childhood.

Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a rare cutaneous tumor with a possibly misleading presentation. It is rare in childhood. We report an 18-month-old child with an acquired atrophic plaque of the left ankle. Based on clinical findings, initial proposed diagnoses included localized scleroderma and localized lipoatrophy. At the age of 5 years the plaque had increased in size and become a p...