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Case Number : Case 1600 - 12 August Posted By: Guest

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Clinical Details: F80. Calf mass. Referral c/o Dr Terry Jones

Case Posted by Dr Richard Carr
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vincenzo polizzi

vincenzo polizzi 185

Posted

Pleomorphic Fibroma.

It is usually described as a polypoid or dome shaped lesion, rather than a mass, but location and morphology fit well!

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Raul Perret

Raul Perret 262

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There is a lot of mucin, with this location we should ask the fellow clinician how is the thyroid biology of the patient to rule out a tumoral form of pretibial myxedema. Fibroblasts are increased and reactive so another option is lichen myxedematosus (I assume there aren't any other signs or symptons in the patient to consider scleromyxedema). But I think it is a must asking the lab of the patient to discard thyroid pathology first. Another thing that crossed my mind if the lesion is unilateral was a massive form of lymphoedema but I think this is not the typical morphology. To sum up, not tumoral for me but rather a mucinosis

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim 508

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I am thinking of angiofibroblastoma of the skin although not enough capillaries in the stroma as described for this entity, but we have spindled and stellate fibroblasts in myxoid and fibromyxoid areas.. Not sure though :-) waiting to know the correct answer..

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Guest Romualdo

Guest Romualdo

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In contrast to much more common subcutaneous lesions, cutaneous spindle cell/ pleomorphic lipomas are more frequent in women, are more infiltrative  and have a wide anatomic distribution. Spindle cells, pleomorphic cells, mucin, mast cells, thick collagen fibers, rare adipocytes and CD34 positivity and S100 negativity fit well.

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Raul Perret

Raul Perret 262

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Yes you are right Romualdo I should have payed more attention to the case. Always forget to check for the nice ropey collagen seen in picture seven and as you very well remarked there are also evident floret cells.

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Eman El-Nabarawy

Eman El-Nabarawy 69

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Also thought of spindle cell lipoma.

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Nitin Khirwadkar

Nitin Khirwadkar 63

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Would go for a pleomorphic lipoma. 

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Dr. Richard Carr

Dr. Richard Carr 622

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Yes I thought this was a nice example of a dermally located spindle cell lipoma (overlaps morphologically and cytogenetically with pleomorphic lipoma). 

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