Intraoral Aggressive Fibromatosis: Current Management and Presentation of a Case

Abstract

The patient was discharged without incident, with good evolution in the successive controls (Figure 4), and without signs of locoregional recurrence in the long-term follow-up (10 years). DiscussionMuscle-aponeurotic fibromatosis -also known as desmoid tumour-is a rare and benign entity, originally described in 1832 by McFarlane (Great Britain) as a fibroblast proliferation. These tumours present an infiltrative growth pattern, causing destruction of neighbouring tissues, and a marked tendency to recurrence. They differ from fibrosarcomas in their not metastatic capacity and their less cellularity, not presenting a pseudo-capsule and in their absence of abnormal mitoses [1,2].