Cellular neurothekeoma in the arm of a child.
Soft tissue tumours of the limb in children are uncommon. We report a cellular neurothekeoma, which presented as a hard, irregular tumour in the upper arm of a 7-year-old child. The differential diagnosis of soft tissue tumours in the upper limbs of children is discussed.
Department of Plastic Surgery, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford BD9 6RJ, UK. sohailakhtar001@yahoo.co.uk
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D001132:Arm; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018321:Neurothekeoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*