Malignant Fibrohisticytoma of the Knee in a Patient with HIV.
J Glob Infect Dis
; 4(4): 212-4, 2012 Oct.
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ABSTRACT
This case report describes a patient presenting with anterior knee pain (extensor mechanism pain), a poorly studied complaint in the HIV population. The final diagnosis was malignant fibrohistiocytoma, a rare condition among knee pathologies, successfully treated with endoprosthesis after tumor resection. This article focuses on what the authors learned after treating this patient, particularly on the difficulty in making a correct diagnosis of this group of patients due to lack of adequate epidemiological characterization. By assuming that the pathology was related to long-term infection and treatment of HIV (knee hoffitis), the authors underestimated the gravity of the case, almost compromising the result of treatment.
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En
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J Glob Infect Dis
Ano de publicação:
2012
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Article
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Brasil