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neoplasm to initiate early treatment and potentially controlling this disease.

DECLARATIONS
Acknowledgments
We thank Dr. Marwa Abdulkader from Department of Pathology, and Dr. Fajir Busaeed from Department
of Radiology for providing us with the figures.

Authors’ contributions
Concept, literature search preparation, editing and revision of manuscript: Alsaffar G, Almedallah D, Al-
Shabeeb G
Patient data and imaging acquisition: Baarmah A
Supervision and revision of manuscript: Nassim E

Availability of data and materials
Data available upon request.

Financial support and sponsorship
None.

Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
IRB approval from the hospital and a written informed consent were obtained.

Consent for Publication
Not applicable.

Copyright
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