Granular Cell Tumor of Rectum: A Very Rare Entity

Granular cell tumors are predominantly benign, occurring more commonly in women, with about 10% developing in the gastrointestinal tract. Rectal location of this tumor is very rare. We herein report one such case of a 61-year-old man with granular cell tumor in the rectum who underwent endoscopic cu...

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Autores principales: Sunkara, Tagore, Nagaraj, Savitha V., Gaduputi, Vinaya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5306986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28255473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3795482
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description Granular cell tumors are predominantly benign, occurring more commonly in women, with about 10% developing in the gastrointestinal tract. Rectal location of this tumor is very rare. We herein report one such case of a 61-year-old man with granular cell tumor in the rectum who underwent endoscopic curative resection.
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spelling pubmed-53069862017-03-02 Granular Cell Tumor of Rectum: A Very Rare Entity Sunkara, Tagore Nagaraj, Savitha V. Gaduputi, Vinaya Case Rep Gastrointest Med Case Report Granular cell tumors are predominantly benign, occurring more commonly in women, with about 10% developing in the gastrointestinal tract. Rectal location of this tumor is very rare. We herein report one such case of a 61-year-old man with granular cell tumor in the rectum who underwent endoscopic curative resection. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5306986/ /pubmed/28255473 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3795482 Text en Copyright © 2017 Tagore Sunkara et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Granular Cell Tumor of Rectum: A Very Rare Entity
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title_full Granular Cell Tumor of Rectum: A Very Rare Entity
title_fullStr Granular Cell Tumor of Rectum: A Very Rare Entity
title_full_unstemmed Granular Cell Tumor of Rectum: A Very Rare Entity
title_short Granular Cell Tumor of Rectum: A Very Rare Entity
title_sort granular cell tumor of rectum: a very rare entity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5306986/
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