Caldwell E H
Surgery. 1976 Jan;79(1):104-6.
A 26-year-old woman developed a desmoid tumor of the lower abdominal wall shortly after the birth of her fourth child. It measured 15 by 17 cm. and involved most of the lower abdominal wall of this small-framed woman. Operative removal would have been mutilating and almost surely doomed to failure. No treatment was given. Over a 5 year period, the tumor regressed and has disappeared almost completely. It was and has remained entirely asymptomatic. Desmoid tumors of the abdominal wall never metastasize, are asymptomatic, and may regress spontaneously. Since surgical treatment so often fails, it is felt that extensive or mutilating operations are not justified.
一名26岁女性在生育第四个孩子后不久，下腹部壁出现了一个硬纤维瘤。肿瘤大小为15×17厘米，累及了这位身材瘦小女性的大部分下腹部壁。手术切除会造成毁容，而且几乎肯定会失败。未进行任何治疗。在5年的时间里，肿瘤逐渐消退，几乎完全消失了。它过去和现在一直完全没有症状。腹壁硬纤维瘤从不转移，没有症状，而且可能会自发消退。由于手术治疗常常失败，人们认为进行广泛或毁容性手术是不合理的。
