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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medcli.2009.06.027 | DOI Listing |
J Surg Oncol
September 2024
General Surgery Deparment, Hospital Felicio Rocho, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are sarcomas affecting the stomach and small intestine, with a rare subtype characterized by succinate dehydrogenase B (SDHB)-loss posing significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. A 62-year-old man with weight loss and abdominal pain was diagnosed with a gastric GIST showing SDHB-loss. Initial treatment with Imatinib reduced the tumor size, but surgery revealed no residual tumor.
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September 2023
Department of Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology Area, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
Life (Basel)
May 2023
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañon (liSGM), Gregorio Marañon General University Hospital, 28007 Madrid, Spain.
(1) Background: Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in the first two decades of life. One third of cases appear in the head and neck, with 60% of these being embryonal type. RMS is extremely rare in adults, comprising only 1% of adult malignancies, and of those, only 3.
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March 2024
Department of Stomatology, A.C.Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
Background: Angiosarcoma is an aggressive malignant neoplasm of vascular origin. Oral metastases of angiosarcoma are rare and have a non-specific clinical presentation, thus the diagnosis may be challenging.
Case Report: Herein we report a case of a 34-year-old female patient after treatment of a high-grade angiosarcoma of the breast, who presented an asymptomatic bleeding purplish nodule in the maxillary interdental papilla between the first and second premolar.
CASE (Phila)
March 2023
Cardiology Department, Fundación Cardioinfantil-LaCardio, Bogotá, Colombia.
• Cardiac tumors are rare but not uncommon. • There is no definitive treatment available for spindle cell sarcoma. • TTE (or TEE) is usually the initial imaging modality for these tumors.
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