Definition

Dermatopathy (skin disease) rare, characterized by the presence of a mass in relief or by the appearance of a closet (slight elevation) whose surface is uneven and that has lost its usual elasticity (Woody consistency).

Symptoms

Fibrosarcoma of the skin is painless and covered with a skin with a normal aspect but including staining tire sometimes on the off-white. According to patients, that this area or not more or less intense pigmentation. Lesions sit on the front of the chest or abdomen and at the root of the members.

Evolution of the disease

Very slowly there is an increase in volume of the tumor. Then appears a ulceration (loss of substance). The evolution is to infection with a very important achievement of the General State. Evolution is pejorative for the patient because of the exhaustion caused by the pathophysiological process (increase volume, loss of substance occurring infection, fatigue etc.) to the body. There generally, after surgery with for purpose to remove the tumor, recurrence without metastasis (or more distant neighbourhood tissue invasion).

Treatment

Surgical ablation and dermatological supervision. Radiotherapy (use of x-rays as a method to reduce the volume of swelling or even remove it). This removal is broad. This means that the surgeon performs an excision (he removes tissue) expanded with a margin of less than three centimeters, a portion of the fascia (protection membrane) located below tumor is also concerned by this excision. Chemotherapy.