Regarding desmoid tumors of the anterior abdominal wall

According to Sänger, desmoid tumors of the anterior abdominal wall should be understood as all tumors of the connective tissue type originating from the muscular-aponeurotic layer of the abdominal wall, without distinguishing their histological structure and clinical properties. There is an extensive material on this subject in the foreign literature, especially the work of Pfeiffer, covering 400 cases, and Klot, covering 500 cases of this kind of tumors, deserve attention. Among Russian authors, the most extensive statistics on desmoid tumors was given by Prof. G.F. Pisemsky, who collected 550 cases of desmoid tumors from foreign and Russian literature, including his own 9. Comparative rarity of this disease and scarcity of Russian literature on the subject allow me to report cases of desmoid of anterior abdominal wall, observed in Kazan Obstetrical Gynecological Clinic from 1903 to 1927 and operated on by Prof. V.S.Gruzdev.