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- noun A
tumour of thesympathetic nerve fibres arising fromneural crest cells .
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But after a battery of test, including an MRI and a CT scan, doctors discovered a giant mass known as a ganglioneuroma, a rare tumor that begins growing slowly in the autonomic nerve cells.
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In the horse, intestinal cancers such as intestinal adenocarcinoma, leiomyoma, leiomyosarcoma, myxosarcoma, ganglioneuroma, nerve sheath tumor, and carcinoid are challenging to differentiate from other conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and internal abscesses.
TheHorse.com News 2010
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