BACKGROUND Many patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) die from desmoid tumours which can arise spontaneously but often appear to be surgically induced by prophylactic colectomy. FAP results from germline adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene mutations and desmoids arise following biallelic APC mutation, with one change usually occurring distal to the second beta-catenin binding/deg...

Background: Desmoid tumors are benign and rare fibroblastic neoplasms which behave in a locally-aggressive manner to infiltrate into the adjacent tissue and have a high incidence of local recurrence after surgical excision. Desmoid tumors may develop during or shortly after pregnancy. Case presentation : We report here a case of abdominal desmoid tumor involving the ileum and its mesentery in a...

Desmoid tumors are fibrotic neoplasms of low metastatic potential. These tumors have long been associated with major laparotomy incisions. However, to the best of our knowledge, they have not been previously associated with laparoscopic trocar placement. This report involves the case of a patient who developed a desmoid tumor at a trocar site. A 35 year-old premenopausal woman presented with an...

aggressive fibromatosis or desmoid tumors, histologically indicated by small bundles of spindle cells in a fibrous background, are uncommon benign tumors without metastasis. they are recurrent and aggressive and their recurrence and severity is exacerbated following surgical operation. based on previous reports, these tumors rarely present as intra-abdominal abscesses. herein, a 54-year-old wom...

Let λ be א0 or a strong limit of cofinality א0. Suppose that 〈Gm, πm,n : m ≤ n < ω〉 and 〈Hm, π t m,n : m ≤ n < ω〉 are projective systems of groups of cardinality less than λ and suppose that for every n < ω there is a homorphism σ : Hn → Gn such that all the diagrams commute. If for every μ < λ there exists 〈fi ∈ Gω : i < μ〉 such that i 6= j =⇒ fif −1 j 6∈ σω(Hω) then there exists 〈fi ∈ Gω : i ...

BACKGROUND Extra-abdominal desmoid tumors are rare neoplasms with variable biological behavior. The mainstay of treatment is surgery. Complementary treatment with tyrosine-kinase receptor inhibitor drugs, particularly imatinib mesylate, has been reported in the literature. The purpose of this study was to determine the possible presence of tyrosine-kinase receptors in extra-abdominal desmoid tu...

Desmoid tumors are non-metastatic mesenchymal tumors with an aggressive local growth. Depending on the anatomic location, morbidity varies. We report of a patient with a desmoid tumor of the right shoulder which was treated in our department by surgical excision, plastic-surgical wound closure and postoperative adjuvant radiation.

Desmoid tumours are generally very rare but occur about 100 times more frequently in the colorectal cancer predisposition syndrome familial adenomatous polyposis (MIM 175100), being represented in about 10% of patients. In addition to desmoid disease occurring in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) there exist familial infiltrative fibromatosis (MIM 135290) kindreds where there is no evidence ...

This is the first report of a desmoid tumor 19 years after radiation therapy for seminoma of the testis at the age of 40. It stresses the need to include the desmoid tumor in the differential diagnosis of an intra-abdominal tumor after treatment of testicular cancer as well as the possible radiation induction of desmoid tumor. Dr. med. Hartmut E.H. Wegner, Urologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Uni...

Desmoid tumours are a group of rare soft tissue tumours of mesenchymal origin, which arise following the monoclonal proliferation of well-differentiated fibroblasts. They are highly infiltrative and can be locally recurrent, but do not metastasize and may stabilise with time. This article describes 3 cases of desmoid tumours in a junctional area, and a literature review in the clinical manageme...