Desmoid tumors of the abdominal wall: A case report

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Andreas Hirner¹  Hans Jochen Textor²  Hans Peter Fischer³  Pan Decker¹  Marcus Overhaus¹ 

[1] Department of General-, Visceral-, Thoracic- and Vascular Surgery, Sigmund Freud Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, University of Bonn, Germany;Department of Radiology, Sigmund Freud Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, University of Bonn, Germany;Department of Pathology, Sigmund Freud Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, University of Bonn, Germany

关键词: surgery.;    clonal neoplasm;    familial adenomatous polyposis;    genotype;    abdominal;    fibromatosis;    Desmoid;   

Others  :  1207510
DOI  :  10.1186/1477-7819-1-11

 received in 2003-04-16, accepted in 2003-07-09,  发布年份 2003

【 摘 要 】

Background

Desmoid tumors are slow growing deep fibromatoses with aggressive infiltration of adjacent tissue but without any metastatic potential.

Case Presentation

We report on two female patients with desmoid tumor of the abdominal wall who underwent primary resection. Both patients had a history of an earlier abdominal surgery. Preoperative evaluation included abdominal ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography. The histology in both cases revealed a desmoid tumor.

Conclusion

Complete surgical resection is the first line management of this tumor entity.

【 授权许可】

   
2003 Overhaus et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.

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