Desmoplastic fibroma
| Desmoplastic fibroma | |
|---|---|
| Specialty | Oncology |
In
cortical bone destruction. It usually affects craniofacial bones, mandible most frequently, long bones (metaphyseal femur, tibia, humerus).[1] The World Health Organization, 2020, reclassified these tumors as specific benign tumors in the category of fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors.[2]
Although it does not tend to
radiotherapy and chemotherapy in this tumor still is unclear.[5]
Some cases have been described, in which an osteosarcoma has arisen from a desmoplastic fibroma.[6]
A famous occurrence of this particular form of the disease involved Italo-Australian Riccardo Torresan in 2011, with 18 cm of femur needing to be removed with the now widely recognized method of "aggressive curettage" being employed.[7]
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