title: A case of childhood dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans of the face.
abstract: We report an extremely rare case of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans located on the face of an 8-year-old boy. Although dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans typically has intermediate malignancy, the tumor in the present case was highly invasive and required a multistaged operation, including wide resection and full-thickness skin grafting. These operations were successfully performed, and the patient is alive without recurrence for 7 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. nara@pedsurg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Keigo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nara
authors.forename: Takaharu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oue
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yoneda
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukuzawa
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yano
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D018223:Dermatofibrosarcoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D012074:Remission Induction; D012086:Reoperation; D016038:Skin Transplantation