Postirradiation malignant fibrous histiocytoma

Journal Article · Mon Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1985 · Arch. Dermatol.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.121.4.535· OSTI ID:5554759

Goette, D K; Deffer, T A

A slowly growing, firm, asymptomatic tumor developed in the skin overlying the left scapula of a 72-year-old woman during a six-month period. Twenty-seven years earlier, she had radiation treatment to that site for an intraductal carcinoma of the left breast. The histopathologic diagnosis was malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH). The rarity of this late complication of radiation therapy is reflected by a few reports in the medical literature of cutaneous MFH as late radiation sequelae.

• Research Organization: Letterman Army Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
• OSTI ID: 5554759
• Journal Information: Arch. Dermatol.; (United States), Journal Name: Arch. Dermatol.; (United States) Vol. 121:4; ISSN ARDEA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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