Desmoid tumour of the breast may present a difficulty in the diagnosis especially where imaging studies are not conclusive and suggest a more ominous diagnosis.

A high index of suspicion and a thorough triple examination protocol is necessary to detect rare lesions like a desmoid tumour which can masquerade as breast carcinoma.

SIR - A 37-year-old man, who had been on total parenteral nutrition for 2 years after excision of his small bowel for a mesenteric desmoid tumour, found this regimen unacceptable and sought a small bowel allograft.

Currently, there is no accepted standard treatment for desmoid tumors.

Desmoid tumors can develop virtually at any body site.

Treatment of desmoid tumor will be surgery whenever possible.

It is useful to incorporate into the discussion the risk of developing desmoid tumors following surgery.

In some patients, desmoid tumors do not progress or are very slow growing and may not need therapy.

Revised text to state that desmoid tumors are also known as aggressive fibromatoses.

Desmoid tumors have a highly variable natural history, including well documented examples of spontaneous regression.

Another type of fibrous tissue tumor is a desmoid tumor.

The following season, a cancerous desmoid tumor was found in Dravecky's pitching arm.

Desmoid tumors are low-grade malignancies with very low potential to metastasize.

Regardless of its scientific classification, a Desmoid tumor can be invasive to surrounding tissues and difficult to control.

Desmoid tumours of the breast are rare.

Imatinib is an experimental drug in the treatment of desmoid tumor or aggressive fibromatosis.

A desmoid risk factor scale has been described in an attempt to identify patients who are likely to develop desmoid tumors.

Watchful waiting for some desmoid tumors.

Desmoid tumors, also known as aggressive fibromatosis.

The incidence of mammary desmoid tumours is less than 0.2% of primary breast neoplasms.

Current experimental studies are being done with Gleevec (Imatinib) for treatment of desmoid tumors, and show promising success rates.

These data suggest that genetic testing could be of value in the medical management of patients with FAP and/or multiple desmoid tumors.

Fibromatoses (desmoid tumors).

A third study reported mixed results in 14 patients with FAP-associated desmoid tumors treated with pirfenidone for 2 years.

Desmoid tumors arise most frequently from the aponeurosis of the rectus abdominal muscle of multiparous women.

Desmoid tumour of the breast may present a difficulty in the diagnosis especially where imaging studies are not conclusive and suggest a more ominous diagnosis.

Desmoid tumors are proliferative, locally invasive, nonmetastasizing, fibromatous tumors in a collagen matrix.

Surgery has been the traditional main mode of therapy for Desmoid tumors but up to 70% of these tumors recur after surgery.