Giant Subcutaneous Leiomyosarcoma of Anterior Abdominal Wall

Subcutaneous leiomyosarcomas are rare tumors accounting for 1% to 2% of all superficial soft tissue malignancies. Although they may arise anywhere in the body, they most frequently occur in the lower extremities. The incidence of subcutaneous LMS affecting the anterior abdominal wall is very rare. W...

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Autores principales: Jena, Sanghamitra, Bhattacharya, Samir, Roy, Shravasti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25506027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/308916
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author Jena, Sanghamitra
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description Subcutaneous leiomyosarcomas are rare tumors accounting for 1% to 2% of all superficial soft tissue malignancies. Although they may arise anywhere in the body, they most frequently occur in the lower extremities. The incidence of subcutaneous LMS affecting the anterior abdominal wall is very rare. We herein report the case of a patient with a giant subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma arising in the anterior abdominal wall. It was diagnosed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry and treated accordingly.
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spelling pubmed-42518222014-12-11 Giant Subcutaneous Leiomyosarcoma of Anterior Abdominal Wall Jena, Sanghamitra Bhattacharya, Samir Roy, Shravasti Case Rep Surg Case Report Subcutaneous leiomyosarcomas are rare tumors accounting for 1% to 2% of all superficial soft tissue malignancies. Although they may arise anywhere in the body, they most frequently occur in the lower extremities. The incidence of subcutaneous LMS affecting the anterior abdominal wall is very rare. We herein report the case of a patient with a giant subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma arising in the anterior abdominal wall. It was diagnosed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry and treated accordingly. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4251822/ /pubmed/25506027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/308916 Text en Copyright © 2014 Sanghamitra Jena 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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title_full Giant Subcutaneous Leiomyosarcoma of Anterior Abdominal Wall
title_fullStr Giant Subcutaneous Leiomyosarcoma of Anterior Abdominal Wall
title_full_unstemmed Giant Subcutaneous Leiomyosarcoma of Anterior Abdominal Wall
title_short Giant Subcutaneous Leiomyosarcoma of Anterior Abdominal Wall
title_sort giant subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma of anterior abdominal wall
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25506027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/308916
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