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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Autores principales: Grewal, Reetu, Natter, Patrick, Makary, Raafat, Silliman, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Rare Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29374633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221738
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author Grewal, Reetu
Natter, Patrick
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-57869972018-01-31 Desmoplastic fibroblastoma of the left upper arm Grewal, Reetu Natter, Patrick Makary, Raafat Silliman, Julia BMJ Case Rep Rare Disease 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. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5786997/ /pubmed/29374633 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221738 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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title Desmoplastic fibroblastoma of the left upper arm
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title_short Desmoplastic fibroblastoma of the left upper arm
title_sort desmoplastic fibroblastoma of the left upper arm
topic Rare Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29374633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221738
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