The Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation

December 2014

Desmoid tumors in neurosurgery: a review of the literature.

Author Information

Frank Van Calenbergh,Jan De Vlieger,Johannes van Loon,Philippe De Vloo,Raf Sciot,Vincent Vander Poorten

Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:philippedevloo@gmail.com.,Department of Oncology, Section Head and Neck Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Department of Pathology, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Publication

Summary

Neurosurgical cases of DT have been very scarce. We review the literature concerning neurosurgical DTs and describe the first case of a cicatricial DT after the resection of vestibular schwannoma, presenting as a painful swelling in the retrosigmoid scar. Contrary to other localizations in the body, standard-of-care wide margin resection cannot be performed in intracranial and spinal DTs. Therefore, maximally safe resection followed by radiotherapy when tumor margins are not free can be proposed as a treatment strategy in neurosurgical Dts

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