A Rare Clavicular Desmoplastic Fibroma Accommodation: Case Report

Erlon de Avila Carvalho (1)
(1) Hospital Alberto Cavalcanti/FHEMIG, Thoracic Surgery Service, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil , Brazil

Abstract

Desmoplastic fibroma is a benign, rare, locally aggressive and
non
-
metastatic myofibroblastic tumor. It affects more young
patients between 20 and 30 years, in whom it usually presents
high morbidity, causing pain and local edema. The objective was
to repo
rt a rare case of involvement in an elderly man, with a
complaint of bone prominence in the right clavicle, associated
with pain and pruritus. The diagnosis was made from the
anatomopathological exam with immunohistochemical study and
the treatment was the
excision of the affected clavicle. Even in
view of the current arsenal, it is still a diagnostic challenge and
the evidence regarding the most efficient surgical treatment is
controversial, requiring further studies about
this subject

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Erlon de Avila Carvalho
erlon.avila@gmail.com (Primary Contact)
Carvalho, E. de A. . (2022). A Rare Clavicular Desmoplastic Fibroma Accommodation: Case Report. Journal of Medical Case Reports and Reviews, 3(09). Retrieved from http://jmcrr.info/index.php/jmcrr/article/view/55
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