Giant-cell tumor of the urethra: Report of an unusual case

Urethral strictures may present due to many causes. Obstructive urinary symptoms secondary to urethral malignancy is a rare presentation. Moreover, primary giant-cell tumor (GCT) arising in the urethra is an extremely unusual entity, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been described till d...

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Autores principales: Rao, Meenakshi, Choudhary, Gautam Ram, Malik, Akanksha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6458817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31000925
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/iju.IJU_286_18
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author Rao, Meenakshi
Choudhary, Gautam Ram
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description Urethral strictures may present due to many causes. Obstructive urinary symptoms secondary to urethral malignancy is a rare presentation. Moreover, primary giant-cell tumor (GCT) arising in the urethra is an extremely unusual entity, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been described till date; therefore, the clinical behavior is uncertain. We report a clinically unsuspected case of GCT of the urethra, who presented with urethral stricture.
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spelling pubmed-64588172019-04-18 Giant-cell tumor of the urethra: Report of an unusual case Rao, Meenakshi Choudhary, Gautam Ram Malik, Akanksha Indian J Urol Case Report Urethral strictures may present due to many causes. Obstructive urinary symptoms secondary to urethral malignancy is a rare presentation. Moreover, primary giant-cell tumor (GCT) arising in the urethra is an extremely unusual entity, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been described till date; therefore, the clinical behavior is uncertain. We report a clinically unsuspected case of GCT of the urethra, who presented with urethral stricture. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6458817/ /pubmed/31000925 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/iju.IJU_286_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_fullStr Giant-cell tumor of the urethra: Report of an unusual case
title_full_unstemmed Giant-cell tumor of the urethra: Report of an unusual case
title_short Giant-cell tumor of the urethra: Report of an unusual case
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6458817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31000925
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/iju.IJU_286_18
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