Hayward P G, Orgill D P, Mulliken J B, Perez-Atayde A R
Division of Plastic Surgery, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
J Pediatr Surg. 1995 Jan;30(1):84-8. doi: 10.1016/0022-3468(95)90616-9.
Two infants presented with a congenital cervicothoracic mass; both were initially diagnosed as having lymphatic malformation. A biopsy specimen for one child and excision for the other showed that both lesions were congenital fibrosarcomas. Postoperative chemotherapy was administered to both children. One died within 6 months of incisional biopsy from widespread metastatic disease; the other is still being treated. Congenital fibrosarcoma can be confused in its clinical presentation, radiographic findings, and histopathology with lymphatic malformation (cystic hygroma).