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Metastasis of uterine leiomyosarcoma to the pancreas
Author(s) -
Iwamoto Ichiro,
Fujino Toshinori,
Higashi Yohichi,
Tsuji Takahiro,
Nakamura Noboru,
Komokata Teruo,
Douchi Tsutomu
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 1341-8076
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2005.00344.x
Subject(s) - medicine , leiomyosarcoma , metastasis , immunohistochemistry , pancreas , lung , pathology , histology , cancer
Background: Metastasis of uterine leiomyosarcoma to the pancreas is extremely rare. Case: A 46‐year‐old woman presented with hypermenorrhea and dysmenorrhea and underwent surgery. The histologic and immunohistochemical diagnosis was uterine leiomyosarcoma stage I with no metastasis to the ovaries or the pelvic lymph nodes. The mitotic count was very high. Thereafter, recurrences in the lung and subsequently in the pancreas were detected. The lesions in the lung and pancreas were resected and diagnosed as metastases of uterine leiomyosarcoma based on histology and immunohistochemistry. Conclusion: We report an extraordinarily rare case of uterine leiomyosarcoma with metastasis to the pancreas following initial metastasis to the lung, both of which were diagnosed using histology and immunohistochemistry of the specimens obtained at surgery.