Desmoplastic fibroblastoma of the left upper arm

نویسندگان

  • Reetu Grewal
  • Patrick Natter
  • Raafat Makary
  • Julia Silliman
چکیده

An elderly female patient presented to the clinic with a several-week history of a mass in her left upper arm that was tender to the touch. The mass was initially thought to be a schwannoma of the left radial nerve based on imaging and was surgically removed. The pathology report revealed an uncommon diagnosis of desmoplastic fibroblastoma.

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دوره 2018  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2018