title: Intraabdominal desmoid causing death in a young man with Gardner's syndrome.
abstract: The case is reported of a 22-year-old man with Gardner's syndrome who died as a consequence of unremitting spread of an intraabdominal desmoid four and a half years after colectomy for polyposis, and two and a half years after clinical presentation of the desmoid tumour.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms; D005350:Fibroma; D006801:Humans; D007417:Intestinal Polyps; D008297:Male; D008643:Mesentery; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; D013577:Syndrome