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Cecal Schwannoma: A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Young Woman with Review of Literature

Schwannomas are rare mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. Occurrence of these tumors is more common in the stomach than in the large intestine. These tumors usually present as polypoidal intraluminal lesions and based on their location can present with rectal bleeding, colonic obstructi...

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Autores principales: Kanneganti, Kalyan, Patel, Harish, Niazi, Masooma, Kumbum, Kavitha, Balar, Bhavna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3132483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21760773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/142781
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author Kanneganti, Kalyan
Patel, Harish
Niazi, Masooma
Kumbum, Kavitha
Balar, Bhavna
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description Schwannomas are rare mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. Occurrence of these tumors is more common in the stomach than in the large intestine. These tumors usually present as polypoidal intraluminal lesions and based on their location can present with rectal bleeding, colonic obstruction, and abdominal pain or defecation disorders. We present a case of a thirty-five-year-old woman who presented with abdominal pain and melena. Patient was diagnosed with a nonobstructing superficially ulcerated mass in the cecum on colonoscopy and required right hemicolectomy. A very rare pathological diagnosis of cecal schwannoma was made postoperatively.
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spelling pubmed-31324832011-07-14 Cecal Schwannoma: A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Young Woman with Review of Literature Kanneganti, Kalyan Patel, Harish Niazi, Masooma Kumbum, Kavitha Balar, Bhavna Gastroenterol Res Pract Case Report Schwannomas are rare mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. Occurrence of these tumors is more common in the stomach than in the large intestine. These tumors usually present as polypoidal intraluminal lesions and based on their location can present with rectal bleeding, colonic obstruction, and abdominal pain or defecation disorders. We present a case of a thirty-five-year-old woman who presented with abdominal pain and melena. Patient was diagnosed with a nonobstructing superficially ulcerated mass in the cecum on colonoscopy and required right hemicolectomy. A very rare pathological diagnosis of cecal schwannoma was made postoperatively. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3132483/ /pubmed/21760773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/142781 Text en Copyright © 2011 Kalyan Kanneganti et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Cecal Schwannoma: A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Young Woman with Review of Literature
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title_sort cecal schwannoma: a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in a young woman with review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3132483/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/142781
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