Soft-tissue sarcoma mimicking hematoma: report of one clinical case

Abstract

The authoress describes the clinical case of a patient with soft-tissue sarcoma initially diagnosed and treated as hematoma. This failure in the initial diagnosis resulted in a delay of several months, culminating in patient´s death. This case is an example that the possibility of a malignant tumour is to be always considered, when a presumptive hematoma follows an atypical clinical course, being the result of this suspicion further investigation with NMR and biopsy, if necessary.