Recurrent aggressive fibromatosis of the chest wall

A 57-year-old woman with a previous history of aesthetic surgery for breast reduction presented with a subcutaneous mass in the right axilla. A CT scan showed a solid mass on the chest wall, and she underwent surgical resection with a diagnosis of aggressive fibromatosis. After a 10-month period of...

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Autores principales: Foà, Riccardo, Rizzo, Stefania, Petrella, Francesco, De Maria, Federica, Bellomi, Massimo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25368668
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2014.464
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author Foà, Riccardo
Rizzo, Stefania
Petrella, Francesco
De Maria, Federica
Bellomi, Massimo
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description A 57-year-old woman with a previous history of aesthetic surgery for breast reduction presented with a subcutaneous mass in the right axilla. A CT scan showed a solid mass on the chest wall, and she underwent surgical resection with a diagnosis of aggressive fibromatosis. After a 10-month period of follow-up, a local recurrence occurred, and in accordance with the up-to-date approach, the recurrence has been treated with a conservative approach (medical treatments) with good control of the symptoms and downsizing of the lesion.
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spelling pubmed-41709782014-11-03 Recurrent aggressive fibromatosis of the chest wall Foà, Riccardo Rizzo, Stefania Petrella, Francesco De Maria, Federica Bellomi, Massimo Ecancermedicalscience Case Report A 57-year-old woman with a previous history of aesthetic surgery for breast reduction presented with a subcutaneous mass in the right axilla. A CT scan showed a solid mass on the chest wall, and she underwent surgical resection with a diagnosis of aggressive fibromatosis. After a 10-month period of follow-up, a local recurrence occurred, and in accordance with the up-to-date approach, the recurrence has been treated with a conservative approach (medical treatments) with good control of the symptoms and downsizing of the lesion. Cancer Intelligence 2014-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4170978/ /pubmed/25368668 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2014.464 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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