Malignant Glomus Tumor of the Peritoneum: Case Report

Glomus tumors are usually benign tumors that occur in the skin and soft tissues of the extremities. Visceral locations, such as stomach, intestines or lung, are extremely rare because glomus bodies are rare or absent in these organs. This report describes our experience in a 47-year-old woman diagno...

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Autores principales: Baleato-González, Sandra, García-Figueiras, Roberto, Trujillo-Ariza, Maria Virginia, Carrera-Álvarez, Juan Jose
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Radiology 2014
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Gastrointestinal Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3909863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24497793
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2014.15.1.61
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author Baleato-González, Sandra
García-Figueiras, Roberto
Trujillo-Ariza, Maria Virginia
Carrera-Álvarez, Juan Jose
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description Glomus tumors are usually benign tumors that occur in the skin and soft tissues of the extremities. Visceral locations, such as stomach, intestines or lung, are extremely rare because glomus bodies are rare or absent in these organs. This report describes our experience in a 47-year-old woman diagnosed with a peritoneal malignant glomus tumor. This finding has not been previously reported.
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spelling pubmed-39098632014-02-04 Malignant Glomus Tumor of the Peritoneum: Case Report Baleato-González, Sandra García-Figueiras, Roberto Trujillo-Ariza, Maria Virginia Carrera-Álvarez, Juan Jose Korean J Radiol Gastrointestinal Imaging Glomus tumors are usually benign tumors that occur in the skin and soft tissues of the extremities. Visceral locations, such as stomach, intestines or lung, are extremely rare because glomus bodies are rare or absent in these organs. This report describes our experience in a 47-year-old woman diagnosed with a peritoneal malignant glomus tumor. This finding has not been previously reported. The Korean Society of Radiology 2014 2014-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3909863/ /pubmed/24497793 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2014.15.1.61 Text en Copyright © 2014 The Korean Society of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Baleato-González, Sandra
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title_fullStr Malignant Glomus Tumor of the Peritoneum: Case Report
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title_short Malignant Glomus Tumor of the Peritoneum: Case Report
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