FRAITAG , Sylvie

A child with plexiform fibrohistiocytic tumor is presented, in whom a superficial biopsy was misdiagnosed as an inflammatory granuloma. Cytogenetic analysis revealed a 46,X,del(X)(q13)[3]/46,XX[23] karyotype. However, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and array-comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) analysis failed to detect any...

AIM:Angiomatosis of soft tissue (AST) is a, rare, high-flow, intramuscular vascular anomaly. In the context of PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome (PHTS), this AST is referred to as PTEN hamartoma of soft tissue. Given that AST is observed in patients with no history of PHTS, we hypothesized that non-syndromic AST arises as a consequence of a somatic...

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