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A Giant Sporadic Intra-abdominal Desmoid Tumor in a Male Patient: A Case Report
Desmoid tumors (DTs) are rare locally aggressive benign soft tissue tumors with an estimated annual incidence of two to four new cases per million people. The giant intra-abdominal mass presents a diagnostic challenge that includes a broad differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GI...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9356662/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35949762 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26633 |
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author | Elhaddad, Basma Gopireddy, Dheeraj Liu, Shiguang |
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description | Desmoid tumors (DTs) are rare locally aggressive benign soft tissue tumors with an estimated annual incidence of two to four new cases per million people. The giant intra-abdominal mass presents a diagnostic challenge that includes a broad differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), fibrosarcoma, retroperitoneal fibrosis, and other malignancies from adjacent organs. We report a case of a 38-year-old male patient with a giant intra‑abdominal mass. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen and pelvis indicated mucinous cystic neoplasm or gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), but histopathology confirmed it to be a desmoid tumor. The patient was discharged, and on follow-up five months until now, there is no recurrence. This case highlighted the importance of including DT in the differential diagnosis of very large intra‑abdominal masses. |
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spelling | pubmed-93566622022-08-09 A Giant Sporadic Intra-abdominal Desmoid Tumor in a Male Patient: A Case Report Elhaddad, Basma Gopireddy, Dheeraj Liu, Shiguang Cureus Pathology Desmoid tumors (DTs) are rare locally aggressive benign soft tissue tumors with an estimated annual incidence of two to four new cases per million people. The giant intra-abdominal mass presents a diagnostic challenge that includes a broad differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), fibrosarcoma, retroperitoneal fibrosis, and other malignancies from adjacent organs. We report a case of a 38-year-old male patient with a giant intra‑abdominal mass. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen and pelvis indicated mucinous cystic neoplasm or gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), but histopathology confirmed it to be a desmoid tumor. The patient was discharged, and on follow-up five months until now, there is no recurrence. This case highlighted the importance of including DT in the differential diagnosis of very large intra‑abdominal masses. Cureus 2022-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9356662/ /pubmed/35949762 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26633 Text en Copyright © 2022, Elhaddad et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Pathology Elhaddad, Basma Gopireddy, Dheeraj Liu, Shiguang A Giant Sporadic Intra-abdominal Desmoid Tumor in a Male Patient: A Case Report |
title | A Giant Sporadic Intra-abdominal Desmoid Tumor in a Male Patient: A Case Report |
title_full | A Giant Sporadic Intra-abdominal Desmoid Tumor in a Male Patient: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | A Giant Sporadic Intra-abdominal Desmoid Tumor in a Male Patient: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | A Giant Sporadic Intra-abdominal Desmoid Tumor in a Male Patient: A Case Report |
title_short | A Giant Sporadic Intra-abdominal Desmoid Tumor in a Male Patient: A Case Report |
title_sort | giant sporadic intra-abdominal desmoid tumor in a male patient: a case report |
topic | Pathology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9356662/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35949762 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26633 |
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