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Solitary fibrous tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare soft tissue tumor originally reported in the pleura. Although it has been reported in various extra-pleural sites, the occurrence of SFT in the scrotum is extremely rare. Herein, we present a 48-year-old man who had scrotal SFT. There are very few r...

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Autores principales: Chang, Tsung-Hsin, Chen, Marcelo, Lee, Chih-Chiao
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-019-0573-2
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author Chang, Tsung-Hsin
Chen, Marcelo
Lee, Chih-Chiao
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description BACKGROUND: Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare soft tissue tumor originally reported in the pleura. Although it has been reported in various extra-pleural sites, the occurrence of SFT in the scrotum is extremely rare. Herein, we present a 48-year-old man who had scrotal SFT. There are very few reported cases of genitourinary SFTs, this is only the fifth report of SFT of the scrotum in the English medical literature. CASE PRESENTATION: In this study, we report on a 48-year-old man who presented with a 5 × 8 cm scrotal mass between his testes. Physical examination revealed a 4.7 × 8.5 cm lobulated tumor mass located between his testicles. Surgical excision of the tumor with scrotal approach was done and pathology reported a SFT. The patient was alive without tumor recurrence or distant metastasis during ongoing follow-up for 9 months post-operatively.. CONCLUSION: Scrotal SFTs are very rare and only five cases have been reported in English literature to date. Treatment often involves surgical resection, and a definite diagnosis is made with the help of immunohistochemistry. The current general consensus for the management of SFTs is long-term follow-up after surgical excision of the tumor.
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spelling pubmed-69376392019-12-31 Solitary fibrous tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature Chang, Tsung-Hsin Chen, Marcelo Lee, Chih-Chiao BMC Urol Case Report BACKGROUND: Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare soft tissue tumor originally reported in the pleura. Although it has been reported in various extra-pleural sites, the occurrence of SFT in the scrotum is extremely rare. Herein, we present a 48-year-old man who had scrotal SFT. There are very few reported cases of genitourinary SFTs, this is only the fifth report of SFT of the scrotum in the English medical literature. CASE PRESENTATION: In this study, we report on a 48-year-old man who presented with a 5 × 8 cm scrotal mass between his testes. Physical examination revealed a 4.7 × 8.5 cm lobulated tumor mass located between his testicles. Surgical excision of the tumor with scrotal approach was done and pathology reported a SFT. The patient was alive without tumor recurrence or distant metastasis during ongoing follow-up for 9 months post-operatively.. CONCLUSION: Scrotal SFTs are very rare and only five cases have been reported in English literature to date. Treatment often involves surgical resection, and a definite diagnosis is made with the help of immunohistochemistry. The current general consensus for the management of SFTs is long-term follow-up after surgical excision of the tumor. BioMed Central 2019-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6937639/ /pubmed/31888599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-019-0573-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Chen, Marcelo
Lee, Chih-Chiao
Solitary fibrous tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title Solitary fibrous tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Solitary fibrous tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Solitary fibrous tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Solitary fibrous tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Solitary fibrous tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort solitary fibrous tumor of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-019-0573-2
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