Neoadjuvant sirolimus for a large hepatic perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa)
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Neoadjuvant sirolimus for a large hepatic perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa)
Perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) are rare soft-tissue tumors with an extremely heterogeneous clinical behavior. They may arise in different organs and may behave indolently or sometimes metastasize with different grades of biological aggressiveness. We report the case of a young woman with a primary inoperable PEComa of the liver with malignant histological features. Since the mTO...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Surgical Oncology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1477-7819
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-12-46