Abscess or Tumor? When a Retroperitoneal Mass on Computerized Tomography Turns Out to Be a Rare Soft Tissue Growth.
Abscess
Desmoid fibromatosis
Retroperitoneal mass
Soft tissue tumor
Tamoxifen
Journal
Case reports in oncology
ISSN: 1662-6575
Titre abrégé: Case Rep Oncol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101517601
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
received:
06
04
2021
accepted:
14
04
2021
entrez:
30
7
2021
pubmed:
31
7
2021
medline:
31
7
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
A retroperitoneal finding on a computerized tomography scan, in a symptomatic patient, can harbor the clinician to many differential diagnoses from infectious to malignancy. Desmoid fibromatosis (DF), a relatively innocuous mass that can spread locally, can be found in that anatomical region. Even for a rare tumor such as DF, our patient did not meet the usual benchmarks of this cancer, being an elderly female and having it appear as an abscess radiologically. Timely clinical response with radiotherapy and tamoxifen allowed our patient's DF to regress and resolved her symptoms.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34326738
doi: 10.1159/000516754
pii: cro-0014-1025
pmc: PMC8299377
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
1025-1030Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 by S. Karger AG, Basel.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
We report no conflict of interest in this case report.
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