Malignant glomus tumor of the lung with multiple metastasis: a rare case report

Malignant glomus tumor, or glomangiosarcoma, is a very rare mesenchymal neoplasm that, when seen, occurs in visceral organs. Despite having histologic features of malignancy, these tumors usually do not metastasize. However, when metastasis occurs, this disease is often fatal. Our report presents th...

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Autores principales: Wang, Saibin, Ding, Chuanbiao, Tu, Junwei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25888833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-014-0423-3
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description Malignant glomus tumor, or glomangiosarcoma, is a very rare mesenchymal neoplasm that, when seen, occurs in visceral organs. Despite having histologic features of malignancy, these tumors usually do not metastasize. However, when metastasis occurs, this disease is often fatal. Our report presents the case of a 59-year-old female patient with a highly aggressive and widely metastatic glomus tumor of the lung.
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spelling pubmed-43367632015-02-23 Malignant glomus tumor of the lung with multiple metastasis: a rare case report Wang, Saibin Ding, Chuanbiao Tu, Junwei World J Surg Oncol Case Report Malignant glomus tumor, or glomangiosarcoma, is a very rare mesenchymal neoplasm that, when seen, occurs in visceral organs. Despite having histologic features of malignancy, these tumors usually do not metastasize. However, when metastasis occurs, this disease is often fatal. Our report presents the case of a 59-year-old female patient with a highly aggressive and widely metastatic glomus tumor of the lung. BioMed Central 2015-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4336763/ /pubmed/25888833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-014-0423-3 Text en © Wang et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Malignant glomus tumor of the lung with multiple metastasis: a rare case report
title Malignant glomus tumor of the lung with multiple metastasis: a rare case report
title_full Malignant glomus tumor of the lung with multiple metastasis: a rare case report
title_fullStr Malignant glomus tumor of the lung with multiple metastasis: a rare case report
title_full_unstemmed Malignant glomus tumor of the lung with multiple metastasis: a rare case report
title_short Malignant glomus tumor of the lung with multiple metastasis: a rare case report
title_sort malignant glomus tumor of the lung with multiple metastasis: a rare case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25888833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-014-0423-3
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