title: Vaginal solitary fibrous tumor: a case report with recurrence after incomplete excision.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Primary solitary fibrous tumors (SFTs) of the female genital tract are exceedingly rare. We report a spindle cell tumor of the vagina with features consistent with a SFT in a 52-year-old woman.
  
  
  METHODS
  The original tumor was studied with the appropriate panel of immunohistochemical stains. The first recurrence of the tumor was 10 months after its original incomplete excision, and a second recurrence occurred 29 months later. Both recurrences were analyzed using the same immunohistochemical panel.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After considering several related differential diagnoses, the diagnosis of SFT was made based on the morphological and immunophenotypic features.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To the best of our knowledge, this is the third case of vaginal SFT in the English literature, with 2 recurrences after incomplete excision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, and Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Pratibha
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Iyengar
authors.forename: Nadia D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Ismiil
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gerber
authors.forename: Mahmoud A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Khalifa
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D018365:Neoplasm, Residual; D014625:Vaginal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery