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A Case of Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis

Tenosynovial giant cell tumors (TGCT) are a rare group of generally non-malignant tumors that involves the synovium and tendon sheath. A young female patient presented to the outpatient department with a complaint of unilateral knee swelling and pain. She was evaluated as such and based on a provisi...

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Autores principales: Sugandhi, Akhil, Kondaveeti, Sai Kanth Sharma, Sunder, Ashok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35855244
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25957
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author Sugandhi, Akhil
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description Tenosynovial giant cell tumors (TGCT) are a rare group of generally non-malignant tumors that involves the synovium and tendon sheath. A young female patient presented to the outpatient department with a complaint of unilateral knee swelling and pain. She was evaluated as such and based on a provisional diagnosis of benign synovial proliferation, she was treated with an arthroscopic resection. We discuss our case and discuss the possible medical therapies to prevent recurrence.
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spelling pubmed-92860032022-07-18 A Case of Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis Sugandhi, Akhil Kondaveeti, Sai Kanth Sharma Sunder, Ashok Cureus Internal Medicine Tenosynovial giant cell tumors (TGCT) are a rare group of generally non-malignant tumors that involves the synovium and tendon sheath. A young female patient presented to the outpatient department with a complaint of unilateral knee swelling and pain. She was evaluated as such and based on a provisional diagnosis of benign synovial proliferation, she was treated with an arthroscopic resection. We discuss our case and discuss the possible medical therapies to prevent recurrence. Cureus 2022-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9286003/ /pubmed/35855244 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25957 Text en Copyright © 2022, Sugandhi 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286003/
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