Fibrous hamartoma of childhood

As Fibrous hamartoma of infancy or subdermal fibrous tumor of childhood is called a rare benign soft tissue tumor, the first time in 1956 by Australian pathologist Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye described. The tumor lies in the lower layers of the skin or the subcutaneous tissue and occurs primarily in the armpit , shoulder or upper arm area . It mainly affects small children in the first two years of life. The clinical course is usually benign even after an incomplete resection .

literature

• Hashimoto, H .: Fibrous hamartoma of infancy. In: WHO Classification of Tumors: Pathology and Genetics of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone. Lyon, IARC Press

Individual evidence

1. ^ RD Reye: A consideration of certain subdermal fibromatous tumors of infancy. In: The Journal of pathology and bacteriology. Volume 72, Number 1, July 1956, pp. 149-154, ISSN  0368-3494 . PMID 13367990
2. ↑ FM Enzinger: Fibrous hamartoma of infancy. In: Cancer. Volume 18, February 1965, pp. 241-248, ISSN  0008-543X . PMID 14254080
3. ^ GE Dickey, C. Sotelo-Avila: Fibrous hamartoma of infancy: current review. In: Pediatric and developmental pathology: the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Pediatric Pathology Society. Volume 2, Number 3, 1999 May-Jun, pp. 236-243, ISSN  1093-5266 . PMID 10191347 (Review).

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