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July 17, 2023
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Larotrectinib as an Effective Therapy in Congenital Infantile Fibrosarcoma: Report of Two Cases

Publicated to: European J Pediatr Surg Rep. 10 (1): E76-E79 - 2022-01-01 10(1), DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1748866

Authors:

Lapena, Lucas Moratilla; Caldas, Maria Carmen Sarmiento; Ramirez, Carla; Basilio, Maria San; Junco, Paloma Triana; Rodriguez-Laguna, Lara; Martinez-Gonzalez, Victor; Marin-Manzano, Elena; Perez-Martinez, Antonio; Lopez-Gutierrez, Juan Carlos;
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Abstract

Congenital infantile fibrosarcoma (CIF) is a rare tumor in children that occurs in the first years of life. It usually arises in the extremities but some cases affect the trunk, neck, abdomen, or retroperitoneum. Surgical resection has been traditionally the treatment of choice but the development of genomic analysis and targeted therapies has shed light on new therapeutic options. We present two patients with a congenital mass, one in the abdominal cavity (1-month-old) and the second in the left lower extremity respectively (2-months-old). In both cases, the clinical and radiological findings showed heterogeneous masses with rapidly progressive growth. MRI in the first patient exhibited an abdominal mass surrounding the aorta and inferior vena cava associated with a giant infrarenal aortic aneurysm. CT-guided biopsy was performed with pathological findings of fibrosarcoma and ETV6-NTRK3 gene fusion. The second patient underwent open biopsy also with histopathological diagnosis of fibrosarcoma and the same mutation in the TRK gene ( NTRK3 ). Targeted therapy with a specific TRK inhibitor, larotrectinib, was started in both patients. Periodical controls were made by ultrasound or MRI, and after a few weeks of treatment, both children showed significant decrease in the mass. By the second and third months after starting the treatment, both tumors disappeared. The first patient is now 15-months-old and the second one is 8-months-old. Larotrectinib is a novel targeted therapy with excellent results in CIF but long-term outcomes are limited to establish it as a gold standard treatment.The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ).
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Keywords

children tumorcongenital infantile fibrosarcomaLarotrectinib

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.05. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-05, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 5
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 7.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 7 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (LOPEZ GUTIERREZ, JUAN CARLOS).

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