Hemangiopericytoma of Greater Omentum Presenting as a Huge Abdominal Lump

Hemangiopericytoma is a rare neoplasm that can occur in any part of the human body, but it rarely develops in the greater omentum. We report a case of a patient who presented with a huge abdominal lump. At laparotomy, a huge vascular tumor, which was observed originating from the greater omentum, wa...

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Autores principales: Chatterjee, Damodar, Sarkar, Pradip, Sengupta, Niladri, Singh, W. Gopimohan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19568508
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.39626
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author Chatterjee, Damodar
Sarkar, Pradip
Sengupta, Niladri
Singh, W. Gopimohan
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description Hemangiopericytoma is a rare neoplasm that can occur in any part of the human body, but it rarely develops in the greater omentum. We report a case of a patient who presented with a huge abdominal lump. At laparotomy, a huge vascular tumor, which was observed originating from the greater omentum, was resected. Histopathology investigation revealed this tumor as a benign hemangiopericytoma with a malignant potential.
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spelling pubmed-27029082009-06-30 Hemangiopericytoma of Greater Omentum Presenting as a Huge Abdominal Lump Chatterjee, Damodar Sarkar, Pradip Sengupta, Niladri Singh, W. Gopimohan Saudi J Gastroenterol Case Report Hemangiopericytoma is a rare neoplasm that can occur in any part of the human body, but it rarely develops in the greater omentum. We report a case of a patient who presented with a huge abdominal lump. At laparotomy, a huge vascular tumor, which was observed originating from the greater omentum, was resected. Histopathology investigation revealed this tumor as a benign hemangiopericytoma with a malignant potential. Medknow Publications 2008-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2702908/ /pubmed/19568508 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.39626 Text en © Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sengupta, Niladri
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Hemangiopericytoma of Greater Omentum Presenting as a Huge Abdominal Lump
title Hemangiopericytoma of Greater Omentum Presenting as a Huge Abdominal Lump
title_full Hemangiopericytoma of Greater Omentum Presenting as a Huge Abdominal Lump
title_fullStr Hemangiopericytoma of Greater Omentum Presenting as a Huge Abdominal Lump
title_full_unstemmed Hemangiopericytoma of Greater Omentum Presenting as a Huge Abdominal Lump
title_short Hemangiopericytoma of Greater Omentum Presenting as a Huge Abdominal Lump
title_sort hemangiopericytoma of greater omentum presenting as a huge abdominal lump
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19568508
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.39626
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