Case Reports in Orthopedics
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 794247, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/794247
Case Report
Painful Elastofibroma Dorsi: A Report of a Case and a Brief Review of the Literature
1Department of Surgery, Florina General Hospital, Egnatias 9, 53100 Florina, Greece
2Department of Pathology, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, 41110 Larissa, Greece
3Department of Radiology, NIMTS General Hospital of Athens, Monis Petraki 10-12, 11521 Athens, Greece
Received 27 November 2012; Accepted 27 December 2012
Academic Editors: D. A. Fisher, S. N. Parikh, and A. Sakamoto
Copyright © 2013 Evangelos Falidas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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