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Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Desmoplastic fibroblastoma of the left upper arm
  1. Reetu Grewal1,
  2. Patrick Natter2,
  3. Raafat Makary3,
  4. Julia Silliman4
  1. 1Community Health and Family Medicine, University of Florida Colege of Medicine Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
  2. 2Department of Radiology, University of Florida Colege of Medicine Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
  3. 3Department of Pathology, University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
  4. 4Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Reetu Grewal, reetu.grewal{at}jax.ufl.edu

Summary

An elderly female patient presented to the clinic with a several-week history of a mass in her left upper arm that was tender to the touch. The mass was initially thought to be a schwannoma of the left radial nerve based on imaging and was surgically removed. The pathology report revealed an uncommon diagnosis of desmoplastic fibroblastoma.

  • musculoskeletal and joint disorders
  • peripheral nerve disease
  • pathology

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221738

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors RG is responsible for entire manuscript. PN prepared radiology images and discussion on imaging. RM prepared pathology images and discussion on pathology. JS provided assistance with case write-up, obtaining patient consent and perspective and editing of manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.