Intestinal congenital/infantile fibrosarcoma: a new clinico-pathological entity?
- 5 February 2015
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Pediatric Surgery International
- Vol. 31 (4), 375-379
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-015-3670-7
Abstract
Congenital/infantile fibrosarcoma (IFS) is a relatively rare form of fibrosarcoma diagnosed at birth or during early years of life and that differs from its adult counterpart because of a more favorable behavior. IFS is also known as cellular congenital mesoblastic nephroma, when it affects the kidney and is often but not always characterized by the ETV6-NTRK3 fusion transcript. We report herein the first series of an exceptional tumor of the small intestine occurring in newborns. The four patients shared a stereotyped clinico-pathological presentation with early and acute onset, intestinal perforation, and an infiltration by a highly cellular spindle cell tumor within the dilated intestinal wall exhibiting pathologic features typical of IFS. Molecular studies for the ETV6-NTRK3 translocation were negative in the three cases tested. Patients were treated by surgical wide resection alone and are alive and well (follow-up: 36 months–25 years). Thus, this new clinico-pathological entity, even with lack of documented evidence of the ETV6-NTRK3 translocation, should be included in the differential diagnosis of congenital bowel perforation or obstruction and may represent an intestinal counterpart of IFS.Keywords
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