Items tagged “soft tissue tumour”
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Hibernoma
Hibernomas are rare benign fatty tumors that arise from the vestiges of fetal brown fat and are named “hibernoma” because they resemble brown fat in hibernating animals 1.
Epidemiology
Hibernomas occur in a wide age range (from 2-75 years) 2,3, but are most often found in young adults between ...
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Hibernoma
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Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
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11 Dec 2018
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Granular cell tumor
Granular cell tumors are uncommon soft tissue tumors with the vast majority being benign (approximately 0.5-2.0% have been reported as malignant).
Pathology
Granular cell tumors have been reported in all organ systems, but most prominently are found in these sites 2,5:
breast (granular cell ...
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Myolipoma of soft tissue
Myolipoma of soft tissue or extrauterine lipoleiomyoma is a benign adipocytic soft tissue neoplasm mainly consisting of well-differentiated smooth muscle cells and mature adipose tissue.
Epidemiology
Myolipomas are rare, they are more common in women and seen in the 5th and 6th decades of life...
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Intermuscular lipoma
Intermuscular lipomas are lipomas located deep between muscles.
Terminology
Intermuscular lipomas are sometimes called ‘infiltrating lipomas’ since they can involve both the intramuscular and the tissue between muscles 1.
Epidemiology
Intermuscular lipomas are much less common than superfici...
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Epithelioid hemangioma
Epithelioid hemangiomas are benign vascular neoplasms made of epithelioid endothelial cell morphology usually seen in cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues.
Epidemiology
They have been observed in all age groups with a peak incidence in the 4th decade. There is no gender predominance 1.
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Well-differentiated liposarcoma/atypical lipomatous tumor
Well-differentiated liposarcomas (WDLPS) or atypical lipomatous tumors (ALT) are locally aggressive adipocytic soft tissue neoplasms and are the most common form of liposarcomas.
Terminology
The terminology well-differentiated liposarcoma and atypical lipomatous tumor depend on the localizatio...
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Gardner fibroma
Gardner fibromas or Gardner associated fibromas are benign fibrous plaque-like soft tissue masses formed by a haphazard arrangement of collagen fibers usually associated with familial adenomatous polyposis.
Terminology
The term 'desmoid precursor lesion' is now discouraged 1.
Epidemiology
Ga...
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Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis
Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis, also known as hyaline fibromatosis syndrome or infantile systemic hyalinosis is a rare autosomal recessive syndrome outlined by painful, abnormal, often deforming deposits of hyalinized fibrous material in the extracellular matrix of the skin, subcutaneous soft tis...
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Inclusion body fibromatosis
Inclusion body fibromatosis is a superficial benign myofibroblastic tumor characterized by eosinophilic intracytoplasmatic inclusions. These tumors are also known under the terms infantile digital fibroma or fibromatosis, recurring digital fibroma of childhood, recurring digital fibrous tumor of...
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Calcifying aponeurotic fibroma
Calcifying aponeurotic fibromas, also known as juvenile aponeurotic fibromas or just aponeurotic fibromas are superficial benign potentially recurrent fibroblastic soft tissue tumors usually seen in the palms and soles of children and adolescents 1,2.
Epidemiology
Calcifying aponeurotic fibro...
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Desmoplastic fibroblastoma
Desmoplastic fibroblastoma also known as collagenous fibromas are rare benign fibroblastic soft tissue tumors with an abundant collagenous or myxocollagenous stroma seen in adults1-3.
Epidemiology
Desmoplastic fibroblastomas are rare and usually occur in the adult population with a median age ...
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Angiomyofibroblastoma
Angiomyofibroblastomas are benign mesenchymal neoplasms usually found in the pelvis or perineum, especially the vulva.
Epidemiology
Angiomyofibroblastomas are uncommon tumors predominantly found in adult women usually between menarche and menopause. Approximately 10% of these tumors have been ...
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Cellular angiofibroma
Cellular angiofibromas are benign densely vascularized fibroblastic neoplasms usually found in the lower genital tract specifically the vulva, vagina or perineum in women and the scrotum or groin in men.
Epidemiology
Cellular angiofibromas are rare tumors found in the adult population. There i...
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Nuchal type fibroma
Nuchal-type fibromas or nuchal fibromas are rare benign fibrous tumors arising from the connective tissues of the neck.
Terminology
The term 'collagenosis nuchae' is now discouraged 1.
Epidemiology
Nuchal-type fibromas are rare tumors and are mainly found in men in their 30s and 40s 1.
Asso...
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Acral fibromyxoma
Acral fibromyxomas, also known as superficial acral fibromyxomas or digital fibromyxomas are benign mesenchymal proliferations prone to recurrence usually found in the subungual and periungual sites of the digits.
Terminology
The term 'cellular digital fibroma' is not recommended 1,2.
Epidemi...
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Deep fibrous histiocytoma
Deep fibrous histiocytomas are histologically benign fibrohistiocytic tumors usually found in the subcutaneous or deep soft tissues which can metastasize.
Epidemiology
Deep fibrous histiocytomas are rare tumors. They make up for less than 1% of all fibrohistiocytic tumors and occur over a wide...
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Plexiform fibrohistiocytic tumor
Plexiform fibrohistiocytic tumors (PFHT) are dermal or subcutaneous soft tissue neoplasms of uncertain behavior with biphasic tumor morphology and a plexiform growth pattern.
Epidemiology
Plexiform fibrohistiocytic tumors are rare tumors. They can occur over a wide age range but are usually s...
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Giant cell tumor of soft tissue
Giant cell tumors of soft tissue are fibrohistiocytic neoplasms of uncertain behavior that show morphological similarities to giant cell tumors of bone but are not related genetically.
Terminology
Giant cell tumor of low malignant potential is a term that should not be used any longer 1.
Epid...
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