Sonographic Appearances of Desmoid Tumors

The medical records of 16 patients (9 female and 7 male; age range, 5–66 years) with 24 lesions that had a histologic diagnosis of desmoid tumors were reviewed at our institution. Six cases were extra‐abdominal, 4 intra‐abdominal, and 6 in the abdominal wall. Lesions ranged from 1.5 to 18.0 cm in di...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of ultrasound in medicine 2014-08, Vol.33 (8), p.1519-1525
Main Authors: Lou, Li, Teng, Jianbo, Qi, Hengtao, Ban, Yongguang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdominal Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
aggressive fibromatosis
Child
Child, Preschool
color Doppler sonography
desmoid tumor
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Fibromatosis, Aggressive - diagnostic imaging
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Muscle Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
musculoskeletal ultrasound
Retrospective Studies
sonography
spectral Doppler sonography
Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color - methods
Ultrasonography, Doppler, Pulsed - methods
Young Adult
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The medical records of 16 patients (9 female and 7 male; age range, 5–66 years) with 24 lesions that had a histologic diagnosis of desmoid tumors were reviewed at our institution. Six cases were extra‐abdominal, 4 intra‐abdominal, and 6 in the abdominal wall. Lesions ranged from 1.5 to 18.0 cm in diameter (mean, 6.8 cm). All lesions were solid masses, which appeared hypoechoic, isoechoic, or hyperechoic with homogeneous or heterogeneous echogenicity. Posterior acoustic enhancement was seen in 18 lesions. No lesions showed central necrosis. Most lesions had substantial flow and high resistive index values (>0.70). Sonography can show a desmoid tumor's site, size, contour, margin, echogenicity, homogeneity, vascularity, and resistive index value in detail.
ISSN:0278-4297
1550-9613
DOI:10.7863/ultra.33.8.1519