Twenty-year-old female with leiomyosarcoma of the breast

Primary leiomyosarcoma is a disease with <50 documented cases in the literature worldwide. The standard of care for these tumors has not been established. Physicians who have seen these cases in the past have used wide local excision with or without adjunctive chemo-radiation therapy. We review t...

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Autores principales: Bassett, Parker, Shaban, Jamaal, Fulger, Ilmana, Petersen, Bert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3895049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24876324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt121
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author Bassett, Parker
Shaban, Jamaal
Fulger, Ilmana
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description Primary leiomyosarcoma is a disease with <50 documented cases in the literature worldwide. The standard of care for these tumors has not been established. Physicians who have seen these cases in the past have used wide local excision with or without adjunctive chemo-radiation therapy. We review the literature concerning the mainstay of treatment as well as present a new case of an adolescent with primary leiomyosarcoma.
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spelling pubmed-38950492014-01-21 Twenty-year-old female with leiomyosarcoma of the breast Bassett, Parker Shaban, Jamaal Fulger, Ilmana Petersen, Bert J Surg Case Rep Case Reports Primary leiomyosarcoma is a disease with <50 documented cases in the literature worldwide. The standard of care for these tumors has not been established. Physicians who have seen these cases in the past have used wide local excision with or without adjunctive chemo-radiation therapy. We review the literature concerning the mainstay of treatment as well as present a new case of an adolescent with primary leiomyosarcoma. Oxford University Press 2014-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3895049/ /pubmed/24876324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt121 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2014. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Bassett, Parker
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Twenty-year-old female with leiomyosarcoma of the breast
title Twenty-year-old female with leiomyosarcoma of the breast
title_full Twenty-year-old female with leiomyosarcoma of the breast
title_fullStr Twenty-year-old female with leiomyosarcoma of the breast
title_full_unstemmed Twenty-year-old female with leiomyosarcoma of the breast
title_short Twenty-year-old female with leiomyosarcoma of the breast
title_sort twenty-year-old female with leiomyosarcoma of the breast
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3895049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24876324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt121
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