Hemangiopericytoma in infants and children

Seven cases of hemangiopericytoma in infants and children were managed in the past 10 yr at our Institute. All the children were males and presented with a painless tumor of varying duration, over the extremities or head and neck region. Five of them had the tumors present since birth. Five patients were treated by surgical excision, one received radiotherapy and an other received chemotherapy as the primary treatment. These children were followed for period varying from 1–10 yr. One child died and another had local recurrence in this series. Wide local excision of the tumor is the choice of treatment of these rare tumors. If the histology is suggestive of malignancy or if the tumor is incompletely excised, postoperative radiotherapy is advocated, Chemotherapy is not effective for these tumors.