{"title":"Superficial Acral Fibromyxoma: A Case Report of an Uncommon Tumor of the Foot","authors":"Santiago Pache","doi":"10.24966/ORP-2052/100040","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a case report of a 52-year-old female patient with a Superficial Acral Fibromyxoma (SAF) of her left foot fifth toe. This is a very uncommon soft tissue tumor that affects mainly hands and feet, with a special predilection fortoes, with the hallux most frequent. The tumor in this case was 3cm long and 2.5cm wide, which was unusually large. Few cases are larger than 2 cm long and localized on the fifth toe. The treatment was wide resection of the tumor through amputation of the fifth toe.","PeriodicalId":307687,"journal":{"name":"Orthopedic Research & Physiotherapy","volume":"454 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Orthopedic Research & Physiotherapy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24966/ORP-2052/100040","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study presents a case report of a 52-year-old female patient with a Superficial Acral Fibromyxoma (SAF) of her left foot fifth toe. This is a very uncommon soft tissue tumor that affects mainly hands and feet, with a special predilection fortoes, with the hallux most frequent. The tumor in this case was 3cm long and 2.5cm wide, which was unusually large. Few cases are larger than 2 cm long and localized on the fifth toe. The treatment was wide resection of the tumor through amputation of the fifth toe.