Male urethral sarcoma: a case report and literature review

Urethral tumors are rare and aggressive. They usually affect men (2:1) and occur more commonly in white (85% of cases). Soft tissue sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors that arise from embryonic mesoderm. It represents 1% of all cases of urinary tract malignancies and rarely primary affect t...

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Autores principales: Nogueira, Magno Almeida, dos Santos, Guilherme Campelo Lopes, Lopes, Roberto Iglesias, Campos, Octavio Henrique Arcos, Dall’Oglio, Marcos Francisco, Sant’Anna, Alexandre Crippa
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4872920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26398363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082015RC2992
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author Nogueira, Magno Almeida
dos Santos, Guilherme Campelo Lopes
Lopes, Roberto Iglesias
Campos, Octavio Henrique Arcos
Dall’Oglio, Marcos Francisco
Sant’Anna, Alexandre Crippa
author_facet Nogueira, Magno Almeida
dos Santos, Guilherme Campelo Lopes
Lopes, Roberto Iglesias
Campos, Octavio Henrique Arcos
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description Urethral tumors are rare and aggressive. They usually affect men (2:1) and occur more commonly in white (85% of cases). Soft tissue sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors that arise from embryonic mesoderm. It represents 1% of all cases of urinary tract malignancies and rarely primary affect the ureter. We report a case of male urethral sarcoma. To date, only two similar cases have been published in literature.
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spelling pubmed-48729202016-08-10 Male urethral sarcoma: a case report and literature review Nogueira, Magno Almeida dos Santos, Guilherme Campelo Lopes Lopes, Roberto Iglesias Campos, Octavio Henrique Arcos Dall’Oglio, Marcos Francisco Sant’Anna, Alexandre Crippa Einstein (Sao Paulo) Case Report Urethral tumors are rare and aggressive. They usually affect men (2:1) and occur more commonly in white (85% of cases). Soft tissue sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors that arise from embryonic mesoderm. It represents 1% of all cases of urinary tract malignancies and rarely primary affect the ureter. We report a case of male urethral sarcoma. To date, only two similar cases have been published in literature. Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4872920/ /pubmed/26398363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082015RC2992 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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