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ArticleLung India : official organ of Indian Chest Society2011

A rapidly developing lung mass diagnosed as desmoplastic small round cell tumor.

Nishant Raizada, Mradul Kumar Daga, Nitin Sinha, Rakshit Kumar, Hemanta Nayak, Nitish L Kamble, Sandeep Garg, Naresh Kumar

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Article in Lung India : official organ of Indian Chest Society, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nishant RaizadaDepartment of Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, India.
Mradul Kumar Daga
Nitin Sinha
Rakshit Kumar
Hemanta Nayak
Nitish L Kamble
Sandeep Garg
Naresh Kumar
Maulana Azad Medical College · INApollo Hospitals · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a case of a young male who presented with complaints of fever along with cough and sputum. He was diagnosed with having right pleural effusion. He was already taking anti-tubercular therapy for one month before presentation. He was started on intravenous antibiotics and continued on anti-tubercular therapy in our hospital, based on his high leukocyte count, pleural fluid analysis, and ultrasonographic report of multiple hypoechoic areas in the liver. His symptoms continued to worsen and he subsequently developed mediastinal widening and a left lung mass. Commuted tomography (CT)-guided biopsy of the lung mass revealed a desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor. Desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor is a rare and aggressive tumor, which presents rarely as a mediastinal and lung mass. This tumor has very poor prognosis.

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Desmoplastic small-round-cell tumordesmoplastic tumor of the lungdiagnosismediastinal

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PMID22084544
PMCPMC3213717
OpenAlexW2002750588

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