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antecedentedetraumaꢀsmosoprocesosinflamatorios3. es la resección amplia, ya que puede producir síntomas
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Han sido descriptas disꢀntas variantes según por compresión de las vías aérea y digesꢀva .
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su origen: subcutáneo, intramuscular o fascial .
Con este tratamiento, las recidivas locales son
Debido a su origen en tejidos blandos y su rápi- muy poco frecuentes. Como en otras enfermedades
do crecimiento puede dar síntomas compresivos y ser de baja incidencia, la mayoría de las comunicaciones
confundido con sarcomas. En la región lateral de cuello se refieren a informes de uno o pocos casos. Lu y col.
debe diferenciarse también de metástasis ganglionares presentan una serie de 272 casos entre 2004 y 2014,
o linfomas. Otros diagnósꢀcos para tener en cuenta son aunque con una amplia distribución de edades y loca-
algunos tumores conecꢀvos benignos (fibromas, tumor lizaciones, por lo que resulta diꢂcil hacer inferencias
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desmoides) y los tumores neurogénicos, como en el en situaciones parꢀculares . En conclusión, la fasciꢀs
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caso aquí presentado .
nodular es una patología benigna, poco frecuente, que
Las biopsias citológicas por punción no suelen requiere tratamiento quirúrgico y que puede simular el
ser concluyentes, y no existe un patrón imagenológico comportamiento clínico de otros tumores benignos y
3
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que permita confirmar su diagnósꢀco . Aunque han malignos, por lo que debería ser tenida en cuenta en-
sido descriptos casos de remisión espontánea, el tra- tre los posibles diagnósꢀcos diferenciales de un tumor
tamiento aconsejado ante casos de rápido crecimiento lateral de cuello.
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ENGLISH VERSION
Nodular fasciiꢀs is a benign and rare condiꢀon
An ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiraꢀon
that was first described by Knowaler et al. in 1955 as biopsy was performed on November 19, 2019. The
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subcutaneous pseudosarcomatous fibromatosis .
cytology revealed the presence of spindle-shaped cells
Later, in 1966, Mehrengan proposed the term with oval nuclei and pale cytoplasm, bur a definite
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nodular fasciiꢀs and presented a series of 17 paꢀents .
diagnosis was not made. The pathologist reported that
It has a ubiquitous distribuꢀon, as has been the mesenchymal lesions produced few cells.
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demonstrated by many publicaꢀons and occurs 7–20% in
With a presumpꢀve diagnosis of neurogenic
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the head and neck region . The incidence of nodular fasciiꢀs tumor, possibly originaꢀng from the sympatheꢀc
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is low as it accounts for 0.025% of all pathology diagnoses ; chain due to its prevertebral locaꢀon, she underwent
nevertheless, it should be considered in the differenꢀal surgery under general anesthesia on January 17, 2020.
diagnosis in the region, as the diagnosꢀc and therapeuꢀc The procedure was performed via an oblique anterior
approach is different from other head and neck condiꢀons. presternocleidomastoid cervicotomy. A hard tumor with
For this reason, the authors believe it appropriate to report the same size as indicated by the preoperaꢀve imaging
a case to raise awareness of this condiꢀon.
studies was found fixed to the deep planes behind the
A 41-year-old woman, with no history of trauma, vascular bundle of the neck.
sought medical care for discomfort while swallowing over
Aꢁer performing a complex dissecꢀon, the
the past two years. Aꢁer undergoing several tests, she enꢀre lesion was removed; it was aꢄached to the
was diagnosed with a right lateral neck tumor. On May prevertebral muscles, which were excised in conꢀnuity,
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, 2018, she was operated on by other surgeons. The withtheinternaljugularveinandthecervicalsympatheꢀc
lymph nodes were resected; the pathology report was chain. The hypoglossal nerve, vagus nerve, spinal nerve,
reacꢀve lymph nodes, but the biopsy was inadequate as phrenic nerve, and brachial plexus were idenꢀfied and
it did not correspond to lymph nodes of the lesion but to preserved.
regional lymph nodes that were not affected. There was
no documentaꢀon of other complementary tests of the not performed because the preoperaꢀve diagnosis was
material obtained. a benign lesion.
As discomfort persisted and the tumor grew The paꢀent developed postoperaꢀve Claude
progressively, she underwent new tests. Bernard-Horner syndrome and right brachial paresis,
Intraoperaꢀve frozen secꢀon examinaꢀon was
A neck ultrasound performed on September 27, which improved aꢁer 60 days with kinesiotherapy. There
019, revealed a solid avascular mass with a size of 38 × were no complicaꢀons in the surgical site.
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7 × 26 mm in the right lateral neck region.
The pathological examinaꢀon showed
A contrast-enhanced computed tomography proliferaꢀon of myofibroblasts in ꢀssue culture with
scan performed on October 16th showed a solid mass extensive erythrocyte extravasaꢀon and low mitoꢀc
with a size of 74.7 × 32.5 mm between C2 and C7 in the count, with dense collagen ꢀssue. The resecꢀon margins
right prevertebral space with forward displacement of were free. Immunohistochemical staining showed
the vascular bundle and thyroid gland (Fig. 1 A and B). On posiꢀve staining for vimenꢀn and acꢀn, negaꢀve for the
computed tomography angiography the caroꢀd vessels S-100 protein and Ki-67 proliferaꢀve index of 2%; thus,
were displaced without intrinsic involvement (Fig. 1C).
the diagnosis of nodular fasciiꢀs was made (Fig. 2).