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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Weekly Clinicopathological Exercises
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Volume 329:264-269 July 22, 1993 Number 4
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Case 29-1993— A 54-Year-Old Man with a Mass in the Thigh and a Mass in the Lung
James O. Johnston, and Andrew E. Rosenberg

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A 54-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a mass in the right thigh and a radiographic density in a lung.

The patient had been well until three months earlier, when he observed painless swelling of the right thigh, which enlarged progressively. Nine weeks before entry an ultrasonographic examination was reported to show a hypoechoic soft-tissue mass, 5.2 by 3.2 by 1.8 cm, in the thigh. Microscopical examination of a biopsy specimen of the mass was said to reveal fibrous tissue, inflammation, and granulation tissue. One month before admission the mass was larger, with swelling of the anterolateral . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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