title: [Nodular fascitis].
abstract: Since 1971 four cases of Fasciitis nodularis were treated by the outpatient-department of the Surgical Clinic, Univ. of Erlangen. Alieno loco one patient's disease had been diagnosed as sarcoma, another patient had a lesion operated on which had been suggested being malignant by a pathologist. The danger in Fasciitis nodularis is, that it is easily considered a malignant process and therefore too radical a tumor therapy is performed. The differential diagnosis from clinical and histological point of view between Fasciitis nodularis and soft tissue tumors is presented.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005205:Fascia; D005260:Female; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Fasciitis nodularis