XXXX --review and follow-up of ten cases.

@entity1 @entity172 @entity1420 @entity765 @entity4383
Ten cases of @entity765 , diagnosed, treated, and followed during the past 11 years, were reviewed and the @entity1 reexamined. Two were up to 3 years, two up to 5 years, and four up to 11 years after excision. The remaining two @entity1 were lost to follow-up. The 10 @entity1 included one male and nine females; six females were of childbearing age and three were postmenopausal. In four females the @entity765 was located near various surgical scars. In the one recurrent desmoid it was most probably related to both repeated traumatization of the abdominal wall due to pregnancies and hyperestrogenism. All the surgical margins of resection were microscopically involved by the process. An open liver biopsy, performed simultaneously with the excision of the recurrent desmoid, showed @entity4383 compatible with hyperestrogenism. @entity172 and @entity1420 receptors of this desmoid were negative. In the present series follow-up revealed, in contrast to general agreement, that in spite of incomplete excision, the recurrence rate was low. We suggest that the surgical approach to @entity765 could be less radical, except possibly for lesions in @entity1 with multiple causative factors.
