title: [Congenital fibrosarcoma. Diagnostic-therapeutic implications].
abstract: Most of the soft tissue sarcomas of childhood other than rabdomyosarcoma, have as final diagnosis fibrosarcoma, specially in the first months of life. Overlapping features between infantile myofibromatosis and congenital fibrosarcoma, hemangiopericytoma and fibrohistiocytoma have seen noted. Five patients with congenital fibrosarcoma were operated since 1991. Anatomical sites included lower limb, hand and forearm, and three of them had previous diagnoses of hemangiopericytoma, fibrohistiocytoma and myofibromatosis, with provocated non radical surgery and reoperation. The postoperative course was satisfactory and all are live one to eight years later. In our experience accurate histological diagnosis must be achieved to perform radical surgery on these cases.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirugía Pediátrica, Hospital Infantil, La Paz, Paseo de la Castellana 261, 28046 Madrid.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Leal
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: López
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Díaz
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ros
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pérez Alonso
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tovar
mesh_terms: D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*