Soft tissue swelling in children: case report, differential diagnosis, and diagnostic delay

A general practitioner faces regularly soft tissue swelling in otherwise healthy children. Delay in diagnosis of soft tissue malignancies is often due to asymptomatic nature and the unfamiliarity with the age‐dependent differential diagnosis. Hence, an accurate knowledge is important to prevent impo...

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Autores principales: Schaefers, Jacqueline, Vervloessem, Dirk, De Roover, Dominique, De Praeter, Mania, van der Werff ten Bosch, Jutte, van den Akker, Machiel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4929796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27386119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.585
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author Schaefers, Jacqueline
Vervloessem, Dirk
De Roover, Dominique
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van der Werff ten Bosch, Jutte
van den Akker, Machiel
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spelling pubmed-49297962016-07-06 Soft tissue swelling in children: case report, differential diagnosis, and diagnostic delay Schaefers, Jacqueline Vervloessem, Dirk De Roover, Dominique De Praeter, Mania van der Werff ten Bosch, Jutte van den Akker, Machiel Clin Case Rep Case Reports A general practitioner faces regularly soft tissue swelling in otherwise healthy children. Delay in diagnosis of soft tissue malignancies is often due to asymptomatic nature and the unfamiliarity with the age‐dependent differential diagnosis. Hence, an accurate knowledge is important to prevent important delay in diagnosis of potential malignancies. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4929796/ /pubmed/27386119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.585 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Soft tissue swelling in children: case report, differential diagnosis, and diagnostic delay
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4929796/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.585
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