Desmoplastic fibroma
In medicine, a desmoplastic fibroma is a low-grade malignant, locally aggressive, fibrous and rare tumor of the bone, affecting children and young adults, potentially resulting in cortical bone destruction.[2] Although it does not tend to metastatize, it has a high local recurrence and infiltrative growth.[3] Treatment consists in wide local excision to prevent otherwise frequent recurrences.[4] The role of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in this tumor still is unclear.[6] A famous occurrence of this particular form of the disease involved Italo-Australian Riccardo Torresan in 2011, with 18 cm of femur needing to be removed with the now widely recognized method of "aggressive curettage" being employed.