A Rare Case of Atypical Fibroxanthoma of the Thigh in an Elderly Patient

Atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) is a rare low-grade soft tissue tumor that manifests in sun-damaged skin on the head or neck of elderly patients, although it can occur anywhere else in the body. In this case, we report the presence of AFX on the right thigh of a 70-year-old white female. Upon presentat...

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Autores principales: Alotaibi, Yaser, Bondagji, Mohammed F, Alharthi, Abdulrahman M, Alharbi, Abdullah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9918336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36788920
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33622
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author Alotaibi, Yaser
Bondagji, Mohammed F
Alharthi, Abdulrahman M
Alharbi, Abdullah
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description Atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) is a rare low-grade soft tissue tumor that manifests in sun-damaged skin on the head or neck of elderly patients, although it can occur anywhere else in the body. In this case, we report the presence of AFX on the right thigh of a 70-year-old white female. Upon presentation, she complained of a painless mass on her thigh with no family history of AFX or sun exposure. The mass had previously been managed by incision and drainage, with no improvement. The patient underwent a biopsy, revealing a diagnosis of AFX, which was managed by surgical removal of the neoplasm with appropriate safety margins.
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spelling pubmed-99183362023-02-13 A Rare Case of Atypical Fibroxanthoma of the Thigh in an Elderly Patient Alotaibi, Yaser Bondagji, Mohammed F Alharthi, Abdulrahman M Alharbi, Abdullah Cureus Dermatology Atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) is a rare low-grade soft tissue tumor that manifests in sun-damaged skin on the head or neck of elderly patients, although it can occur anywhere else in the body. In this case, we report the presence of AFX on the right thigh of a 70-year-old white female. Upon presentation, she complained of a painless mass on her thigh with no family history of AFX or sun exposure. The mass had previously been managed by incision and drainage, with no improvement. The patient underwent a biopsy, revealing a diagnosis of AFX, which was managed by surgical removal of the neoplasm with appropriate safety margins. Cureus 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9918336/ /pubmed/36788920 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33622 Text en Copyright © 2023, Alotaibi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Dermatology
Alotaibi, Yaser
Bondagji, Mohammed F
Alharthi, Abdulrahman M
Alharbi, Abdullah
A Rare Case of Atypical Fibroxanthoma of the Thigh in an Elderly Patient
title A Rare Case of Atypical Fibroxanthoma of the Thigh in an Elderly Patient
title_full A Rare Case of Atypical Fibroxanthoma of the Thigh in an Elderly Patient
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Atypical Fibroxanthoma of the Thigh in an Elderly Patient
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Atypical Fibroxanthoma of the Thigh in an Elderly Patient
title_short A Rare Case of Atypical Fibroxanthoma of the Thigh in an Elderly Patient
title_sort rare case of atypical fibroxanthoma of the thigh in an elderly patient
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9918336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36788920
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33622
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