Huge intrathoracic desmoid tumor

Desmoid tumors are soft-tissue neoplasms arising from fascial or musculo-aponeurotic structures. Most reported thoracic desmoid tumors originate from the chest wall. However, intrathoracic desmoid tumors are rare. We present a case of a 35-year-old male patient complaining of mild shortness of breat...

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Autores principales: Ibrahim, Majdi, Sandogji, Hasan, Allam, Abdullah
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19641648
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.53350
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Sandogji, Hasan
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description Desmoid tumors are soft-tissue neoplasms arising from fascial or musculo-aponeurotic structures. Most reported thoracic desmoid tumors originate from the chest wall. However, intrathoracic desmoid tumors are rare. We present a case of a 35-year-old male patient complaining of mild shortness of breath. The patient was diagnosed to have a huge intrathoracic desmoid tumor, which was successfully resected.
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spelling pubmed-27145712009-07-29 Huge intrathoracic desmoid tumor Ibrahim, Majdi Sandogji, Hasan Allam, Abdullah Ann Thorac Med Case Report Desmoid tumors are soft-tissue neoplasms arising from fascial or musculo-aponeurotic structures. Most reported thoracic desmoid tumors originate from the chest wall. However, intrathoracic desmoid tumors are rare. We present a case of a 35-year-old male patient complaining of mild shortness of breath. The patient was diagnosed to have a huge intrathoracic desmoid tumor, which was successfully resected. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2714571/ /pubmed/19641648 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.53350 Text en © Annals of Thoracic Medicine 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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Huge intrathoracic desmoid tumor
title Huge intrathoracic desmoid tumor
title_full Huge intrathoracic desmoid tumor
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title_short Huge intrathoracic desmoid tumor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19641648
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.53350
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