Comments regarding the article: case for diagnosis: Abrikossoff Tumor: unusual location^*

Comentários sobre o artigo "caso para diagnóstico - Tumor de Abrikossoff: localização não usual"

The purpose of this letter is to present some remarks about the article in question: "Abrikossoff Tumor: an unusual location" - An Bras Dermatol. 2013; 88: 475-7.¹ As reference number 3² of the mentioned article: "Abrikossoff Tumor: an unusual location" concerns a case of this type of tumor, published by myself and colleagues, at the time when I was in charge of the Dermatology Service of the Charity Hospital of Andradina - SP, with a lesion located in the palmar region, as described in the original article, published in the Brazilian Annals of Dermatology 1983; 58: 175-6, the statement of the authors is not correct: "No description of this tumor in the upper limb was found in the literature." There must have occurred a mistake, since in 1983 we had already observed and surgically treated a case of Abrikossoff Tumor in the upper limb, more specifically in the palmar region. By accessing the site of the Brazilian Annals of Dermatology and searching for Abrikossoff Tumor all of the references concerning the report of this case will be found. I believe that, as 30 years have passed and there are no other references to this tumor location in the literature, the case published by us continues to be the first publication on this subject.

The fact itself does not in any way reflect on the excellence of the article. We thank you for the reference and for being able to learn that we should consider this differential when facing similar cases, which are seldom detected, of difficult clinical diagnosis and, most of the times, an accurate diagnosis is only achieved through histopathologic testing.

Sincerely, Oswaldo Delfini Filho

REFERENCES

• ¹
  Dell'Horto AG, Pinto JM, Diniz MS. Caso para diagnóstico. Tumor de Abrikossoff: localização não usual. An Bras Dermatol. 2013;88:475-7.
• ²
  Delfini Filho O, Araujo JRS, Tokairin TY, Nascimento AJ. Tumor de Abrikossoff-Relato de um caso. An Bras Dermatol. 1983;58:175-6.

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• * Work performed at the clinical private - Ribeirão Preto (SP), Brazil.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  Oct 2013

History

• Received
  04 July 2013
• Accepted
  07 July 2013