A sarcoma of 23 years' duration: symptom duration is not a reliable parameter to exclude malignancy.
This report describes a 31-year-old woman with a 23-year history of a right buttock mass that was otherwise asymptomatic, but was proven to be a low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma (a fully malignant soft tissue tumour with a potential for distant metastasis). This case illustrates that a long-standing tumour does not necessarily imply a benign pathology. A vigilant approach should be taken for any tumours that are of significant size (larger than 5 cm).
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
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D000328:Adult; D002081:Buttocks; D005260:Female; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D060787:Neoplasm Grading