Hydroxyurea treatment can avoid the need for aggressive surgery in pediatric fibromatosis.
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Aggressive fibromatosis is a rare tumor of borderline malignancy with a marked local aggressiveness. Surgery is the mainstay of treatment but complete tumor resection is often not easy to achieve without functional and cosmetic sequelae. We report a case of a pretreated child with aggressive fibromatosis who responded to hydroxyurea, avoiding the need for demolitive surgery.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology
دوره 35 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013