Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Gastrointestinal granular cell tumors are uncommon. The most common site of gastrointestinal granular cell tumor (GCT) is esophagus. We report a case of esophageal GCT incidentally diagnosed by endoscopy. The lesion was evaluated by endoscopic ultrasonography and resected using the endoscopic techni...

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Autores principales: Niknam, Ramin, Bagheri Lankarani, Kamran, Geramizadeh, Bita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29359053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1071623
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spelling pubmed-57355792018-01-22 Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Niknam, Ramin Bagheri Lankarani, Kamran Geramizadeh, Bita Case Rep Gastrointest Med Case Report Gastrointestinal granular cell tumors are uncommon. The most common site of gastrointestinal granular cell tumor (GCT) is esophagus. We report a case of esophageal GCT incidentally diagnosed by endoscopy. The lesion was evaluated by endoscopic ultrasonography and resected using the endoscopic technique without complication. Hindawi 2017 2017-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5735579/ /pubmed/29359053 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1071623 Text en Copyright © 2017 Ramin Niknam 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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title_full Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort diagnosis and treatment of esophageal granular cell tumor: a case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29359053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1071623
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