Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the esophagus presenting with hematemesis and melaena: a case report and review of literature

Esophageal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMT) are extremely rare, and the understanding on the clinical presentation is limited. IMT of esophagus should be considered as a differential diagnosis in the context of unexplained upper gastrointestinal bleeding and rapidly progressing dysphagia in...

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Autores principales: Jayarajah, Umesh, Bulathsinghala, Rasika P., Handagala, Dassanayake M Sumana, Samarasekera, Dharmabandhu Nandadeva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1296
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author Jayarajah, Umesh
Bulathsinghala, Rasika P.
Handagala, Dassanayake M Sumana
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spelling pubmed-57719232018-01-26 Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the esophagus presenting with hematemesis and melaena: a case report and review of literature Jayarajah, Umesh Bulathsinghala, Rasika P. Handagala, Dassanayake M Sumana Samarasekera, Dharmabandhu Nandadeva Clin Case Rep Case Reports Esophageal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMT) are extremely rare, and the understanding on the clinical presentation is limited. IMT of esophagus should be considered as a differential diagnosis in the context of unexplained upper gastrointestinal bleeding and rapidly progressing dysphagia in young patients. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5771923/ /pubmed/29375843 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1296 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Jayarajah, Umesh
Bulathsinghala, Rasika P.
Handagala, Dassanayake M Sumana
Samarasekera, Dharmabandhu Nandadeva
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the esophagus presenting with hematemesis and melaena: a case report and review of literature
title Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the esophagus presenting with hematemesis and melaena: a case report and review of literature
title_full Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the esophagus presenting with hematemesis and melaena: a case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the esophagus presenting with hematemesis and melaena: a case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the esophagus presenting with hematemesis and melaena: a case report and review of literature
title_short Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the esophagus presenting with hematemesis and melaena: a case report and review of literature
title_sort inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the esophagus presenting with hematemesis and melaena: a case report and review of literature
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1296
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