Desmoplastic fibroblastoma of the left upper arm
نویسندگان
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.
منابع مشابه
Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Desmoplastic Fibroblastoma by Clinical, Radiological, and Histopathological Analyses
BACKGROUND Desmoplastic fibroblastoma (collagenous fibroma) is an uncommon benign soft-tissue tumor, rarely involving bone. It shares some overlapping features with other infiltrate tumors, such as desmoid-type fibromatosis, neurofibroma, and low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma. The misdiagnosis may cause unnecessary surgical overtreatment, especially for those involving bone. In order to deepen the ...
متن کاملDesmoplastic fibroblastoma of the thigh
Desmoplastic fibroblastoma (DF) is a rare benign fibroblastic soft tissue tumor.1 The tumour is prevalent in adult men (4:1), aged 50 to 60 years, with wide anatomic distribution, and tipically it arises in the subcutaneous or subfascial tissue, mainly, of skeletal muscles. The tumor behaves in a benign fashion, presents a slowly growing with no recurrence or metastases, it can achieve a large ...
متن کاملCollagenous Fibroma (Desmoplastic Fibroblastoma) with Vertebral Body Erosion
Collagenous fibroma (desmoplastic fibroblastoma) is a recently described rare benign tumor affecting mainly males in the fifth through seventh decades. This tumor occurs predominantly in the peripheral sites, with predilection for upper and lower extremities. The patients present with a painless mass of involving subcutis, with one quarter of all cases involving skeletal muscle. Both radiograph...
متن کاملDesmoplastic fibroblastoma (collagenous fibroma) of the oral cavity
UNLABELLED Desmoplastic fibroblastoma is benign soft tissue tumor, with fibroblastic or myofibroblastic origin, that rarely occurs in oral cavity. We reported the case of a 56-year-old man who presented a tumor in the left mandibular alveolar ridge, with slow and asymptomatic growth, with no osseous involvement. The tumor was sessile with lobulated surface, covered by healthy mucosa with erythe...
متن کاملMR Findings of Desmoplastic Fibroblastoma: A Case Report
fibrous, soft-tissue tumor first described by Evans (1) in 1995. This tumor is clinically and morphologically distinct and was deemed completely benign in a few reported series (1-3). There have also been published case reports on the MR features of desmoplastic fibroblastoma (4-8). We herein present a case of desmoplastic fibroblastoma with special focus on the MR findings, because they are di...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 2018 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2018