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8943129

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-3-20
pubmed:abstractText
A 7-week-old boy presented with a 6-week history of failure to thrive, acute intestinal obstruction, and an apparently irreducible intussusception (noted on contrast enema). He underwent abdominal exploration, during which a cecal mass was identified and resected. The mass proved to be a leiomyosarcoma. Histologically, it was an intermediate-grade malignancy with a predicted 5-year survival rate of 16% to 23% based on data from the adult experience. Three years after resection and without having received adjuvant therapy, he is healthy and free of disease. A review of the literature showed that in infants these tumors are predominantly colonic, compared with the predilection for small intestinal lesions found in the older pediatric and adult populations. Infantile intestinal leiomyosarcomata are rare malignancies that do well if complete surgical excision of the disease can be accomplished. The histological prognostic indicators proposed for intestinal leiomyosarcomas in the adult population cannot be extrapolated to infants because when they occur in infants, they appear to be less aggressive, and these patients do well without adjuvant therapy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0022-3468
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1577-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Infantile intestinal leiomyosarcoma: surgical resection (without adjuvant therapy) for cure.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Case Reports