Recurring digital fibroma.

Cemento-ossifying Fibroma of Mandible: Report of Two Cases

Cemento-ossifying fibroma (COF) is a bone producing, slow growing, asymptomatic, well-demarcated, benign lesion of the jaw.1 Typically affects female between 20 to 40 years, predilection for the mandible premolar-molar region, causing a painless swelling but undergoes slow expansile growth.2 Most probably tumor originates from periodontal membrane, therefore, with double embryonic origin (ectod...

Recurring digital fibroma of infancy.

CASE REPORTS Case 1-A boy aged six months was seen in 1969 because of a swelling on the back of the distal part of the right middle finger. He was the fourth child of healthy parents. The tumour had appeared in the third month of life ; it was about 5 millimetres in diameter, firm, not tender, and fixed to the skin but not to the underlying tissues. Biopsy showed a dermatofibroma with no sign o...

Erratum to: “Peripheral Cemento-Ossifying Fibroma: Case Series Literature Review”

THE CONCEPT OF FIBROOSSEOUS LESIONS OF BONE HAS EVOLVED OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES AND NOW INCLUDES TWO MAJOR ENTITIES: fibrous dysplasia and ossifying fibroma. Peripheral cemento-ossifying fibroma is a relatively rare tumour classified between fibroosseous lesions. It predominantly affects adolescents and young adults, with peak prevalence between 10 and 19 yrs. The cemento-ossifying fibrom...

Mycobacterium chelonae infection in a patient being treated with adalimumab.

Myxoid DFSP expresses apolipoprotein D and presents with a storiform pattern and characteristic subcutaneous infiltration. Diagnosis is confirmed by detection of the chromosomal translocation t(17;22). The differential diagnosis should include benign myxoid lesions with spindle-shaped cells (myxoid neurofibroma, superficial angiomyxoma, mucous cyst), malignant myxoid lesions with spindle-shaped...

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