Extra-abdominal fibromatosis

PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled “Multicentric extra-abdominal fibromatosis: a rare case” (Z Orthop Ihre Grenzgeb. 2006 Mar-Apr;144(2):223-7). Authors are Ropke M, Kalinski T, Wordehoff H еt al., from the Orthopadische Universitatsklinik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg. Extra-abdominal aggressive fibromatosis is a benign fibroblastic neoplasia with an infiltrative nature and a high tendency of local recurrence. The authors report on a very rare case of multicentric fibromatosis. Low complaints led to considerable size of the tumours. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.