Post-traumatic soft tissue tumors: Case report and review of the literature a propos a Post-traumatic paraspinal desmoid
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Post-traumatic soft tissue tumors: Case report and review of the literature a propos a Post-traumatic paraspinal desmoid tumor Sarit Cohen1, Dean Ad-El1, Ofer Benjaminov2 and Haim Gutman*3 Address: 1Department of Plastic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqwa; and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqwa; and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel and 3Department of Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqwa; and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Email: Sarit Cohen - [email protected]; Dean Ad-El - [email protected]; Ofer Benjaminov - [email protected]; Haim Gutman* - [email protected] * Corresponding author
Published: 29 February 2008 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008, 6:28
doi:10.1186/1477-7819-6-28
Received: 19 June 2007 Accepted: 29 February 2008
This article is available from: http://www.wjso.com/content/6/1/28 © 2008 Cohen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract Background: Antecedent trauma has been implicated in the causation of soft tissue tumors. Several criteria have been established to define a cause-and-effect relationship. We postulate possible mechanisms in the genesis of soft tissue tumors following antecedent traumatic injury. Case presentation: We present a 27-year-old woman with a paraspinal desmoid tumor, diagnosed 3-years following a motor vehicle accident. Literature is reviewed. Conclusion: Soft tissue tumors arising at the site of previous trauma may be desmoids, pseudolipomas or rarely, other soft tissue growths. The cause-and-effect issue of desmoid or other soft tissue tumors goes beyond their diagnosis and treatment. Surgeons should be acquainted with this diagnostic entity as it may also involve questions of longer follow-up and compensation and disability privileges.
Background
Case presentation
The etiology of most soft tissue tumors is unknown. Our search of the English literature revealed a few case reports of soft tissue tumors developing at the site of a previous traumatic injury [1-17]. Desmoid tumors, lipoma and lymphoma were among the tumors reportedly associated with such injuries.
A 27-year-old woman presented with a large subcutaneous mass in the upper back (Figure 1) of 8 months' duration.
We describe a young woman with a left paraspinal desmoid tumor at the site of a recent trauma, possibly associated with a cause-and-effect mechanism. We hope this study will shed more light on this phenomenon.
Family history and past medical history were unremarkable. The patient reported that she had been involved in a motor vehicle accident 3 y
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