Desmoplastic fibroblastoma of the left upper arm

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 uncommo...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ case reports 2018-01, Vol.2018, p.bcr-2017-221738
Hauptverfasser:	Grewal, Reetu, Natter, Patrick, Makary, Raafat, Silliman, Julia
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Arm Bone Neoplasms - diagnosis Bone Neoplasms - pathology Case reports Diagnosis, Differential Female Fibroma, Desmoplastic - diagnosis Fibroma, Desmoplastic - pathology Gangrene Humans Neurilemmoma - diagnosis NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance Pathology Physical therapy Rare Disease Surgery Tumors
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
ISSN:	1757-790X 1757-790X
DOI:	10.1136/bcr-2017-221738