Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A case report of a rare, bulky tumor that was managed with surgical therapy

We report a case of this rare tumor and describe the surgical approach that we adopted and the clinical outcome; we also report his condition at 24 months' follow-up. Although treatment was with radical surgery, sufficient shoulder function could be obtained in our patient. We also describe the...

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Autores principales: Yılmaz, Ahmet, Çenesizoglu, Erol, Eğilmez, Ertuğrul, Önel, Safa, Muştu, Mehdi, Cennet, Ahmet
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2895297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20616952
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6042.48432
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author Yılmaz, Ahmet
Çenesizoglu, Erol
Eğilmez, Ertuğrul
Önel, Safa
Muştu, Mehdi
Cennet, Ahmet
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description We report a case of this rare tumor and describe the surgical approach that we adopted and the clinical outcome; we also report his condition at 24 months' follow-up. Although treatment was with radical surgery, sufficient shoulder function could be obtained in our patient. We also describe the interesting MR findings of this tumor which correlated well with the histopathologic findings.
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spelling pubmed-28952972010-07-08 Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A case report of a rare, bulky tumor that was managed with surgical therapy Yılmaz, Ahmet Çenesizoglu, Erol Eğilmez, Ertuğrul Önel, Safa Muştu, Mehdi Cennet, Ahmet Int J Shoulder Surg Case Report We report a case of this rare tumor and describe the surgical approach that we adopted and the clinical outcome; we also report his condition at 24 months' follow-up. Although treatment was with radical surgery, sufficient shoulder function could be obtained in our patient. We also describe the interesting MR findings of this tumor which correlated well with the histopathologic findings. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2895297/ /pubmed/20616952 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6042.48432 Text en © International Journal of Shoulder Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Yılmaz, Ahmet
Çenesizoglu, Erol
Eğilmez, Ertuğrul
Önel, Safa
Muştu, Mehdi
Cennet, Ahmet
Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A case report of a rare, bulky tumor that was managed with surgical therapy
title Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A case report of a rare, bulky tumor that was managed with surgical therapy
title_full Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A case report of a rare, bulky tumor that was managed with surgical therapy
title_fullStr Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A case report of a rare, bulky tumor that was managed with surgical therapy
title_full_unstemmed Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A case report of a rare, bulky tumor that was managed with surgical therapy
title_short Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A case report of a rare, bulky tumor that was managed with surgical therapy
title_sort dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: a case report of a rare, bulky tumor that was managed with surgical therapy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2895297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20616952
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6042.48432
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