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Glomus Tumor of the Stomach: Depiction by Multidetector CT and Three-Dimensional Volume Rendering Imaging
Tarak H Patel1, Karen M Horton, Ralph H Hruban
1Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Hospital, JHOC 3254, 601 North Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287-0801, USA.
Case Reports in Medicine
|March 6, 2010
Abstract:
Glomus tumors are uncommon tumors which can occur anywhere within the gastrointestinal tract but have been shown to occur most commonly in the gastric antrum. On CT, these tumors demonstrate hyperenhancement which may help distinguish them from other gastric masses.
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