Multiple Glomus Tumors of the Omentum

A glomus tumor is a very rare neoplasm consisting of cells that resemble the modified smooth muscle cells of normal glomus bodies. Here, we report a case of a 39-year-old male with multiple omental glomus tumors. The patient underwent a complete resection of the glomus tumors. This is a rare case of...

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Autores principales: Jung, Won Beom, Park, In Ja, Song, Joon Seon, Cho, Kyung-Ja, Kim, Jin Cheon
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Coloproctology 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26361617
http://dx.doi.org/10.3393/ac.2015.31.4.153
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author Jung, Won Beom
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Kim, Jin Cheon
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description A glomus tumor is a very rare neoplasm consisting of cells that resemble the modified smooth muscle cells of normal glomus bodies. Here, we report a case of a 39-year-old male with multiple omental glomus tumors. The patient underwent a complete resection of the glomus tumors. This is a rare case of omental glomus tumors, and to our knowledge, this patient is the first with multiple omental glomus tumors to be described.
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spelling pubmed-45646672015-09-10 Multiple Glomus Tumors of the Omentum Jung, Won Beom Park, In Ja Song, Joon Seon Cho, Kyung-Ja Kim, Jin Cheon Ann Coloproctol Case Report A glomus tumor is a very rare neoplasm consisting of cells that resemble the modified smooth muscle cells of normal glomus bodies. Here, we report a case of a 39-year-old male with multiple omental glomus tumors. The patient underwent a complete resection of the glomus tumors. This is a rare case of omental glomus tumors, and to our knowledge, this patient is the first with multiple omental glomus tumors to be described. The Korean Society of Coloproctology 2015-08 2015-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4564667/ /pubmed/26361617 http://dx.doi.org/10.3393/ac.2015.31.4.153 Text en © 2015 The Korean Society of Coloproctology 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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