Extra-abdominal desmoid tumors.

摘要: One hundred and ninety-four patients with extra-abdominal desmoid tumors, most of them in the extremities, have been treated at Mayo Clinic. thirty-two (68 per cent) experienced a recurrence an average 1.4 years after first treatment. A greater tendency for was evident female patients, who were more than thirty old, certain anatomical locations (especially foot calf), importantly treatment by intralesional or marginal excision. In view excellent prognosis survival, we recommend wide local excision when anatomically feasible postoperative radiation therapy function extremity would be severely compromised if margins done. recurrent lesion that does not appear to growing should followed until evidence growth precipitates secondary