Desmoid Tumor of Abdominal Wall Infiltrating Splenic Flexure of the Colon

20 May 1961

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 176 (7) , 610-612
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1961.63040200013016

Abstract

THE DESMOID TUMOR is an infrequent, but by no means exceptional, finding. Pack and Ehrlich¹reported 0.03% desmoids among 50,000 tumor admissions at the Memorial Hospital in New York City and 0.13% among 16,000 tumor cases in Viennese hospitals. At the Edgewater Hospital in Chicago among 22,694 surgical cases, 3 desmoid tumors were found, or 0.013%, in the period from 1953 to 1959. According to Pack and Ehrilich,¹the definition of a desmoid tumor is an encapsulated, infiltrating fibroma of fascial or aponeurotic origin, with a microscopic appearance which varies from that of an acellular fibroma to that of a cellular, low-grade fibrosarcoma. The first tumors of this kind were reported by McFarlane²of Glasgow; however, the term desmoid was coined in 1858 by Muller,²who used this term because he was impressed with the dense, tendon-like consistency of the tumor (desmós, Greek:band).² Knowledge

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