Solitary intestinal fibromatosis: a rare cause of intestinal perforation in neonates

Solitary intestinal fibromatosis associated with congenital ileal atresia

“…The prognosis is excellent if the tumor resection is total, and neither metastases nor local recurrence has been reported [5][6][7]. The proliferation is composed, as in the present case, of spindle cells without atypia, positive after immunostaining with vimentine and CD34 and negative for muscle cell markers.…”

Mesenteric fibromatosis in a young girl without familial adenomatous polyposis

“…The age predilection for this tumor is in the fourth decade of life. However, unusual cases have been reported in neonates where MF arises from the intestinal wall rather than the mesentery [14,15]. Although uncommon, MF has also been reported in children [16][17][18].…”

To the editor:

“…2 We have previously presented the ninth case of solitary intestinal fibromatosis and after us, Al-Salem et al reported a newborn presenting with solitary intestinal fibromatosis in colon as the 10th case. 3 Arets et al have not reported these cases in their literature review. Thus, the case reported by Arets et al should be cited as the 11th case of solitary intestinal fibromatosis during childhood.…”