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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 80:555-60 (1998)
© 1998 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Case Report

Calcifying Fibrous Pseudotumor. A Case Report*

HIROSHI ORUI, M.D.{dagger}, MITSUNORI YAMAKAWA, M.D.{ddagger}, AKIRA ISHIKAWA, M.D.{dagger} and TOSHIHIKO OGINO, M.D.{dagger}, YAMAGATA, JAPAN

Investigation performed at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata


   Introduction
 
Calcifying fibrous pseudotumor is a rare, benign, tumorlike lesion that is composed of fibrous tissue with diffuse deposits of calcium and infiltration of inflammatory cells. We report the case of a girl who had such a lesion in the shoulder girdle. Histopathological examination revealed circulatory disturbances, including narrowing of the feeding artery with thickening of the wall, hyalinization of collagen fibers around the capillaries, and thrombi in the capillaries.


   Case Report
 
A thirteen-year-old girl was seen in June 1995 because of a mass in the left shoulder girdle that she had first noticed a month before. The patient had been a pitcher for a softball team but had no history of major traumatic injury. She had slight pain with movement and had not noticed any recent increase in the size of the mass. She had a history of congenital dislocation of the hip, but there was no family history of such dislocation. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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