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Sclerotic fibroma: A fossil no longer

1994; Wiley; Volume: 21; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1600-0560.1994.tb00696.x

1600-0560

Timothy H. McCalmont,

Urologic and reproductive health conditions

We report on a patient with a sclerotic Fibroma that recurred 30 months after initial removal. The histologic features were characteristic, and immunoperoxidase stains using primary antibodies directed against cell proliferation markers were positive in a significant proportion of the neoplastic nuclei. A review of the literature identified one other sclerotic fibroma that persisted. These clinical and light microscopic features support the interpretation that sclerotic fibroma is a proliferating neoplasm with an unusual histologic pattern, rather than the end‐stage of a process that was formerly more cellular. We advocate use of sclerotic fibroma as the preferred diagnostic term.