title: Granular cell tumors: Review of the parameters determining possible malignancy.
abstract: The granular cell tumor (GCT) is normally benign in behavior, but occasionally surprises us with local aggressiveness, and in 2% of cases with distant dissemination. Diagnosis of proven malignancy can only be confirmed by the presence of metastasis. We revised the parameters which give rise to a GCT being considered to have malignant behavior in the absence of metastasis, basing our account on a clinical case.
authors.affiliation: FEA Servicio de Cirugía Oral y Maxilofacial H.U. Puerta de Mar, Cádiz, Spain. pabloman_99@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Budiño-Carbonero
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Navarro-Vergara
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Ruiz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Modelo-Sánchez
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Torres-Garzón
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Rendón-Infante
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fortis-Sánchez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D016586:Granular Cell Tumor / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*