Dermatology

Are You Confident of the Diagnosis? What you should be alert for in the history There are no salient clinical features specific for fibrosarcoma. Most patients lack constitutional symptoms; however, those with larger tumors or those with metastatic disease may have weight loss. The pediatric variant, infantile fibrosarcoma, also presents as a painless mass of…

Are You Confident of the Diagnosis? Soft fibromas are the most common fibrous lesions of the skin. Lesions are most commonly located on the neck and the intertriginous areas of the axilla and groin, but can be found scattered throughout the skin. Characteristic findings on physical examination Patients present with slow-growing asymptomatic flesh-colored or brown-red…