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Malignant Fibrohisticytoma of the Knee in a Patient with HIV

This case report describes a patient presenting with anterior knee pain (extensor mechanism pain), a poorly studied complaint in the HIV population. The final diagnosis was malignant fibrohistiocytoma, a rare condition among knee pathologies, successfully treated with endoprosthesis after tumor rese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Gobbi, Riccardo Gomes, Rebolledo, Daniel Sequel, Lima, Ana Lúcia Munhoz, dos Santos, Alexandre Leme Godoy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326080
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.103900
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Sumario:This case report describes a patient presenting with anterior knee pain (extensor mechanism pain), a poorly studied complaint in the HIV population. The final diagnosis was malignant fibrohistiocytoma, a rare condition among knee pathologies, successfully treated with endoprosthesis after tumor resection. This article focuses on what the authors learned after treating this patient, particularly on the difficulty in making a correct diagnosis of this group of patients due to lack of adequate epidemiological characterization. By assuming that the pathology was related to long-term infection and treatment of HIV (knee hoffitis), the authors underestimated the gravity of the case, almost compromising the result of treatment.