Mitra Heidarpour - Dept. of Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Seyed Abass Tabatabai - Dept. of Surgery, Isfahan University of Medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Majid Heidarpour - Dept. of Orthodontics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Farzaneh Sajjadi - Dept. of Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Gardner’s syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder. Familial polyposis of the colon, osteomas, hypertrophy of the retinal-pigmented layer and a multitude of soft tissue tumorsare characteristic features. The syndrome may be presented with colonic or extracolonic symptoms.A 75-year-old male patient presented to Al-zahra Clinic with diffuse abdominal pain. An abdominal surgery was performed on him due to invasive abdominal mass. The surgical specimen wasexamined by H&E and immunohistochemical staining. The final diagnosis was fibromatosis. Therewas a history of gardner’s syndrome in his family. Colonoscopy was done to confirm the diagnosisof gardner’s syndrome. The diagnosis of gardner’s syndrome was made according to followingfindings: abdominal fibromatosis, multiple jaw osteomas and polyposis coli. The patient withgardner’s syndrome can present with abdominal fibromatosis even in an old age. In IHC stainingCD117 was seen with coarse granular cytoplasmic pattern in fibromatosis, and so, this pattern of CD117 staining can be a clue to the diagnosis of fibromatosis.

Gardner’s Syndrome, Familial Polyposis Coli, Abdominal Fibromatosis, Iran