The mimic of tracheal carcinoid in elderly female

We present a case of a glomus tumor of trachea in an elderly female who presented with a mass originating from the posterior trachea. She underwent rigid bronchoscopy with tumor debulking combined with laser therapy. Frozen section initially suggested carcinoid tumor but later turned out to be a glo...

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Autores principales: Rali, Parth, Jasani, Namrata, Arshad, Hammad, Xie, Jianwu, Balaan, Marvin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29319034
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.221726
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author Rali, Parth
Jasani, Namrata
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description We present a case of a glomus tumor of trachea in an elderly female who presented with a mass originating from the posterior trachea. She underwent rigid bronchoscopy with tumor debulking combined with laser therapy. Frozen section initially suggested carcinoid tumor but later turned out to be a glomus tumor. She improved with additional laser therapy. We present her clinical course and a literature review on glomus tumor.
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spelling pubmed-57608682018-02-07 The mimic of tracheal carcinoid in elderly female Rali, Parth Jasani, Namrata Arshad, Hammad Xie, Jianwu Balaan, Marvin Lung India Case Report We present a case of a glomus tumor of trachea in an elderly female who presented with a mass originating from the posterior trachea. She underwent rigid bronchoscopy with tumor debulking combined with laser therapy. Frozen section initially suggested carcinoid tumor but later turned out to be a glomus tumor. She improved with additional laser therapy. We present her clinical course and a literature review on glomus tumor. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5760868/ /pubmed/29319034 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.221726 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Chest Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Balaan, Marvin
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29319034
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.221726
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