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Congenital/infantile fibrosarcoma (IFS) is a relatively rare form of fibrosarcoma diagnosed at birth or during early years of life and that differs from its adult counterpart because of a more favorable behavior. IFS is also known as cellular congenital mesoblastic nephroma, when it affects the kidney and is often but not always characterized by the ETV6-NTRK3 fusion transcript. We report herein the first series of an exceptional tumor of the small intestine occurring in newborns. The four patients shared a stereotyped clinico-pathological presentation with early and acute onset, intestinal perforation, and an infiltration by a highly cellular spindle cell tumor within the dilated intestinal wall exhibiting pathologic features typical of IFS. Molecular studies for the ETV6-NTRK3 translocation were negative in the three cases tested. Patients were treated by surgical wide resection alone and are alive and well (follow-up: 36 months–25 years). Thus, this new clinico-pathological entity, even with lack of documented evidence of the ETV6-NTRK3 translocation, should be included in the differential diagnosis of congenital bowel perforation or obstruction and may represent an intestinal counterpart of IFS.
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Berrebi, D., Fournet, JC., Boman, F. et al. Intestinal congenital/infantile fibrosarcoma: a new clinico-pathological entity?. Pediatr Surg Int 31, 375–379 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-015-3670-7
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