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A Report of Thirty-Nine Cases

GEORGE T. PACK, M.D.; EDWARD J. TABAH, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1951;62(3):391-411.

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DARIER and Ferrand¹ in 1924 described an unusual progressive and recurring tumor of the skin of fibromatous or fibrosarcomatous character. One year later Hoffmann² reported several similar cases and coined the neologism, "dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans." The neoplasm is rare, but it must have been seen and treated, though unidentified, many years before its recognition as a tumor entity. In earlier years at the Memorial Hospital it was erroneously considered to be a dermal neurosarcoma of low grade malignancy.

Our present study is based on a series of 39 such tumors confirmed by histological study and collected during a 20 year period between January 1929 and January 1949 at the Memorial Hospital. Thirty patients have been constantly available for follow-up observations, but nine were lost for subsequent appraisal. An analysis of these nine delinquent patients confirms the accepted opinion of good results following surgical treatment: A 52 year old man . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York.

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