This brief report is about a 9 year old girl presenting with a 2.5 cm circular blue to violet discoloration on the anterolateral upper left thigh. The first biopsy taken revealed the diagnosis dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. The patient underwent surgery at a specialized sarcoma center with post operative histology showing free wide resection margin. Preoperative chest x-ray showed no sign of ...

A 53-year-old man, previously healthy, presented with a slowprogressive enlarging mass in the midfrontal area which had developed 14 years previously without headache. On physical examination, this nodular reddish mass (11 x 7 x 5 cm) was fluctuant to pressure and tethered to the underlying frontal bone (A). There was no neurological deficit and no superficial lymph nodes. Cranial computed tomo...

BACKGROUND Atrophic variant of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a distinct form of DFSP. CASE PRESENTATION Here, we report the case of a 19-year-old woman with a small congenital atrophic plaque on the right precordium. The lesion remained atrophic for more than 10 years. Several years earlier, a portion of the plaque became tuberous and enlarged. Physical examination revealed a 25 ×...

We have performed this study to define the usefulness of an anti-human progenitor cell antigen-1(anti-CD34) to distinguish some kinds of soft tissue tumors in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues. Sixty three cases of vascular, fibrohistiocytic, neural and other tumors were immunostained for CD34 using the streptavidin-biotin immunoperoxidase method. All of the vascular tumors including he...