CASE REPORT   

Journal of Radiological Review 2020 November-December;7(6):475-9

DOI: 10.23736/S2723-9284.20.00043-8

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language: English, Italian

Elastofibroma dorsi: a rare connective tissue tumor

Rocco MINELLI ¹ ✉, Emanuele MINELLI ², Federica GRECO ¹, Antonio SALZANO ², Alessandra DEL PRETE ², Rita PALMIERI ², Maria G. GIAGNORIO ¹, Antonio DI DONNA ¹, Paolo PIZZICATO ³, Eugenio ROSSI ⁴

¹ Department of Medicine and Health Sciences V. Tiberio, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy; ² Unit of Diagnostic Radiology, San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, Asl Na2Nord Frattamaggiore, Naples, Italy; ³ Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy; ⁴ Unit of Radiology and Echography, Pausilipon-Santobono Hospital, Naples, Italy

Elastofibroma dorsi (ED) is a benign connective tissue tumor, generally located in the subscapularis region. Generally asymptomatic, it is often an occasional finding on imaging; however, it can generate functional limitations and pains. Surgical treatment is only recommended in symptomatic cases. We present the case of a 55-year-old woman who came to our observation at the San Giovanni di Dio Hospital in Frattamaggiore, for a mass located at the lower pole of the right shoulder blade, compatible, for clinical and radiological characteristics, with an ED.

KEY WORDS: Neoplasms, connective tissue; Soft tissue neoplasm; Scapula