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Collagenous fibroma (desmoplastic fibroblastoma): a new case originating in the palate.

Shimoyama T, Horie N, Ide F

Department of Oral Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical School, 1981 Kamoda, Kawagoe, Saitama 350-8550, Japan.

A 49-year-old woman presented with a painless slowly growing but huge polypoid palatal mass. On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), areas of low signal intensity were consistent with a fibrous tumour. T(1) and T(2) weighted MRI after Gd-DTPA administration highlighted a well-circumscribed, purely soft tissue process. Histological analysis of the operative specimen detected collagenous fibroma (desmoplastic fibroblastoma). The patient remains disease-free 4 years after excision.

Published 14 April 2005 in Dentomaxillofac Radiol, 34(2): 117-9.
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