Glomangiosarcoma Involving the Heart with an Unknown Primary Lesion

Glomus tumors are usually benign tumors of the glomus cells with the immunocytochemical and structural features of smooth muscle cells. The majority of the cases of glomus tumors are benign but, rarely, they demonstrate malignant features both clinically and histologically (also known as glomangiosa...

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Autores principales: Ejaz, Komal, Raza, Muhammad A, Aleem, Abdul, Maroof, Shahram, Tahir, Hassan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186712
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2907
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author Ejaz, Komal
Raza, Muhammad A
Aleem, Abdul
Maroof, Shahram
Tahir, Hassan
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Tahir, Hassan
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description Glomus tumors are usually benign tumors of the glomus cells with the immunocytochemical and structural features of smooth muscle cells. The majority of the cases of glomus tumors are benign but, rarely, they demonstrate malignant features both clinically and histologically (also known as glomangiosarcomas). Although glomangiosarcoma involving extracutaneous sites is uncommon, a few cases have been reported. A glomangiosarcoma of the heart is extremely rare due to the rarity of glomus bodies in the myocardium. In this case report, we present the case of a 31-year-old female with glomangiosarcoma involving the heart with an unknown primary lesion.
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spelling pubmed-61226752018-09-05 Glomangiosarcoma Involving the Heart with an Unknown Primary Lesion Ejaz, Komal Raza, Muhammad A Aleem, Abdul Maroof, Shahram Tahir, Hassan Cureus Cardiology Glomus tumors are usually benign tumors of the glomus cells with the immunocytochemical and structural features of smooth muscle cells. The majority of the cases of glomus tumors are benign but, rarely, they demonstrate malignant features both clinically and histologically (also known as glomangiosarcomas). Although glomangiosarcoma involving extracutaneous sites is uncommon, a few cases have been reported. A glomangiosarcoma of the heart is extremely rare due to the rarity of glomus bodies in the myocardium. In this case report, we present the case of a 31-year-old female with glomangiosarcoma involving the heart with an unknown primary lesion. Cureus 2018-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6122675/ /pubmed/30186712 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2907 Text en Copyright © 2018, Ejaz et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Ejaz, Komal
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Glomangiosarcoma Involving the Heart with an Unknown Primary Lesion
title Glomangiosarcoma Involving the Heart with an Unknown Primary Lesion
title_full Glomangiosarcoma Involving the Heart with an Unknown Primary Lesion
title_fullStr Glomangiosarcoma Involving the Heart with an Unknown Primary Lesion
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title_short Glomangiosarcoma Involving the Heart with an Unknown Primary Lesion
title_sort glomangiosarcoma involving the heart with an unknown primary lesion
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186712
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2907
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