Difference between revisions of "Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours"

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===General===
===General===
*Benign.
*Benign.
*May mimic a sarcoma.<ref name=pmid1058047>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Chung | first1 = EB. | last2 = Enzinger | first2 = FM. | title = Proliferative fasciitis. | journal = Cancer | volume = 36 | issue = 4 | pages = 1450-8 | month = Oct | year = 1975 | doi =  | PMID = 1058047 }}</ref>
Clinical:
*Solid subcutaneous nodule.
*Rapid growth.
*Rapid growth.
**May mimic a sarcoma.<ref name=pmid1058047>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Chung | first1 = EB. | last2 = Enzinger | first2 = FM. | title = Proliferative fasciitis. | journal = Cancer | volume = 36 | issue = 4 | pages = 1450-8 | month = Oct | year = 1975 | doi =  | PMID = 1058047 }}</ref>
*May be painful.


===Gross===
===Gross===
*Upper and lower extremities.<ref name=pmid1058047/>
*Classically upper and lower extremities.<ref name=pmid1058047/>
*Poorly demarcated.


===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
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*Frequent typical mitoses.
*Frequent typical mitoses.
**'''No''' atypical mitoses.
**'''No''' atypical mitoses.
DDx:
*[[Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour]].<ref name=pmid17938159>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Gleason | first1 = BC. | last2 = Hornick | first2 = JL. | title = Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumours: where are we now? | journal = J Clin Pathol | volume = 61 | issue = 4 | pages = 428-37 | month = Apr | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1136/jcp.2007.049387 | PMID = 17938159 }}</ref>


Images:
Images:
*[http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/pathology/Case%20Studies/known-pathology-cases/95_4-page Proliferative fasciitis - several images (virginia.edu)].
*[http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/pathology/Case%20Studies/known-pathology-cases/95_4-page Proliferative fasciitis - several images (virginia.edu)].
*[http://www.surgicalpathologyatlas.com/glfusion/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090721114221299 Proliferative fasciitis (surgicalpathologyatlas.com)].


==Elastofibroma==
==Elastofibroma==
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