Fibrosarcoma is a rare type of cancer that affects cells known as fibroblasts. Fibroblasts are responsible for creating the fibrous tissue found throughout the body. Tendons, which connect muscles to ...
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How Fibrosarcoma Is Treated

If fibrosarcoma is caught early, surgery is usually curative, but in more advanced stages, a combination of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy may be needed. The more advanced fibrosarcoma becomes, ...
Figure 1: (A, B) Axial and coronal sections of MRI showing a well-encapsulated, heterogeneous lesion measuring approximately 12 × 7.5 × 6 cm, originating from the belly of the sartorius muscle. (C) ...
THE occurrence of "Whipple's triad" as a manifestation of certain large, nonpancreatic tumors of mesodermal origin is now firmly established, although the mechanism inducing the episodic hypoglycemia ...
Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 2000), pp. 394-399 (6 pages) A 12-yr-old captive intact male maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) was diagnosed with a fibrosarcoma of the ...
Fibrosarcoma is a mesenchymal tumor of adult and pediatric age groups, representing 10 to 12% of all soft-tissue sarcomas. It represents less than 1% of all childhood cancers, but it is the most ...
THE syndrome of hypoglycemia secondary to a nonpancreatic tumor has been reported on several occasions. 1–14 We recently studied a patient with frequent and protracted episodes of hypoglycemia that ...