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benign tumour

Any neoplasm that neither invades locally nor metastasises. Typically benign tumours grow slowly by expansion and are enclosed in a fibrous capsule or pseudocapsule.
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Mature cystic teratoma was the commonest benign tumour (48.2%) in contrast to our study which found serous cystadenoma to be the dominant type.
Clinically and morphologically, cellular angiofibroma can simulate other benign tumours like leiomyoma, angiomyofibroblastoma, spindle cell lipoma and perineurioma (1, 5).
Muco-epidermoid carcinoma and adenoid cystic carcinoma are the commonest cancers of the oral minor salivary glands although polymorphous low grade adenocarcinoma is also becoming recognized as a common minor salivary gland malignancy.9 Pleomorphic adenoma constitutes the commonest benign tumour of the minor salivary glands.12
Pleomorphic adenomas are the most common benign tumours of salivary glands.
Surface epithelial tumours were found common benign tumours 75% followed by germ cell tumours 25%.
He did and was immediately referred to hospital for an MRI scan which revealed a benign tumour on his acoustic nerve.
Keywords: Infantile hepatic hemangioma, IHH, benign tumour, diffuse type.
The peak incidence of benign tumour was between the age group of 21-30 years (35.2%).
Summary: A team of surgeons at the Shaikh Khalifa Hospital in Ras Al Khaimah removed a rare but benign tumour from a 37-year-old Emirati woman's heart.
The commonest benign tumour was dermoid cyst (31/82) followed by serous cystadenoms (20/82).
The findings by experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggested that drugs that restore p53 function could help prevent aggressive lung cancers from metastasising, though they might spare benign tumour cells that could later turn aggressive.
Potts has had appendicitis, a benign tumour removed, and he has also broken his collarbone.
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