Hemorrhagic Giant Cell Tumor of the Occipital Skull Base: A Case Report and Literature Review

Giant cell tumor of bone is a benign but locally aggressive osteolytic neoplasm that represents 3% to 5% of all primary bone tumors, primarily found at the epiphyses of long bones. Less than 1% are of calvarial origin. Herein, we report a rare case of a nine-year-old girl with a hemorrhagic giant ce...

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Autores principales: Kadipasaoglu, Cihan, Wahba, Andrew, Bhattacharjee, Meenakshi B, Cuglievan, Branko, Fletcher, Stephen A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33859893
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13832
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author Kadipasaoglu, Cihan
Wahba, Andrew
Bhattacharjee, Meenakshi B
Cuglievan, Branko
Fletcher, Stephen A
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description Giant cell tumor of bone is a benign but locally aggressive osteolytic neoplasm that represents 3% to 5% of all primary bone tumors, primarily found at the epiphyses of long bones. Less than 1% are of calvarial origin. Herein, we report a rare case of a nine-year-old girl with a hemorrhagic giant cell tumor of the left occipital skull base.
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spelling pubmed-80389302021-04-14 Hemorrhagic Giant Cell Tumor of the Occipital Skull Base: A Case Report and Literature Review Kadipasaoglu, Cihan Wahba, Andrew Bhattacharjee, Meenakshi B Cuglievan, Branko Fletcher, Stephen A Cureus Pediatrics Giant cell tumor of bone is a benign but locally aggressive osteolytic neoplasm that represents 3% to 5% of all primary bone tumors, primarily found at the epiphyses of long bones. Less than 1% are of calvarial origin. Herein, we report a rare case of a nine-year-old girl with a hemorrhagic giant cell tumor of the left occipital skull base. Cureus 2021-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8038930/ /pubmed/33859893 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13832 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kadipasaoglu et al. https://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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Hemorrhagic Giant Cell Tumor of the Occipital Skull Base: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Hemorrhagic Giant Cell Tumor of the Occipital Skull Base: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Hemorrhagic Giant Cell Tumor of the Occipital Skull Base: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Hemorrhagic Giant Cell Tumor of the Occipital Skull Base: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Hemorrhagic Giant Cell Tumor of the Occipital Skull Base: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Hemorrhagic Giant Cell Tumor of the Occipital Skull Base: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort hemorrhagic giant cell tumor of the occipital skull base: a case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038930/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13832
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