Table 2.

EMBASE Classic + EMBASE search strategy, 1947–5 August, 2021

1. Aggressive fibromatosis/or desmoid/

2. (Desmoid tumo* or Aggressive fibromatosis or Desmoid-type fibromatosis or Deep fibromatosis or musculoaponeurotic fibromatosis).tw.

3. 1 or 2

4. Polymerase Chain Reaction/or Signal Transduction/or Immunohistochemistry/or tissue microarray/

5. (Signal transduct* or signalling pathway* or signal pathway* or transcription factor* or polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR or RNA sequenc* or messenger RNA expression or mRNA expression or protein expression or molecul*).tw.

6. (Immunohistochem* or Immunoreact* or tissue array or tissue microarray or biomarker* or biochem*).tw.

7. Mutation/or mutagenesis/or tumor gene/

8. (Pathogenesis or mutation* or microvessel densit* or angiogenesis or Proto-oncogen* or oncogene* or Tumor suppressor or Tumour suppressor).tw.

9. 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8

10. 3 and 9

11. exp animal/not human/

12. 10 not 11

13. Limit 12 to (english language and yr="2000 -Current")