A rare symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: We present a case of a symplastic or "bizarre" leiomyoma of the scrotum. Isolated cases of leiomyomas have been reported arising from the renal pelvis, bladder, spermatic cord, epididymis, prostate as well as the glans penis. However such mesenchymal lesions of the scrotum are...

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Autores principales: Masood, Junaid, Voulgaris, Stelios, Atkinson, Peter, Carr, Tom W
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19068127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-381
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author Masood, Junaid
Voulgaris, Stelios
Atkinson, Peter
Carr, Tom W
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description BACKGROUND: We present a case of a symplastic or "bizarre" leiomyoma of the scrotum. Isolated cases of leiomyomas have been reported arising from the renal pelvis, bladder, spermatic cord, epididymis, prostate as well as the glans penis. However such mesenchymal lesions of the scrotum are very rare. CASE PRESENTATION: Macroscopically the tumour was a well-circumscribed grey-white lesion 8.5 cm in size. Because of its peculiar histological characteristics this tumour was assigned as a symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum. CONCLUSION: We present this unusual tumour and highlight some important diagnostic and treatment pitfalls related to this rare tumour. This case demonstrates that leiomyomas should be considered in the differential diagnosis of scrotal tumours.
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spelling pubmed-26330142009-01-30 A rare symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature Masood, Junaid Voulgaris, Stelios Atkinson, Peter Carr, Tom W Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: We present a case of a symplastic or "bizarre" leiomyoma of the scrotum. Isolated cases of leiomyomas have been reported arising from the renal pelvis, bladder, spermatic cord, epididymis, prostate as well as the glans penis. However such mesenchymal lesions of the scrotum are very rare. CASE PRESENTATION: Macroscopically the tumour was a well-circumscribed grey-white lesion 8.5 cm in size. Because of its peculiar histological characteristics this tumour was assigned as a symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum. CONCLUSION: We present this unusual tumour and highlight some important diagnostic and treatment pitfalls related to this rare tumour. This case demonstrates that leiomyomas should be considered in the differential diagnosis of scrotal tumours. BioMed Central 2008-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2633014/ /pubmed/19068127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-381 Text en Copyright © 2008 Masood et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Masood, Junaid
Voulgaris, Stelios
Atkinson, Peter
Carr, Tom W
A rare symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title A rare symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_full A rare symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr A rare symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed A rare symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_short A rare symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort rare symplastic or bizarre leiomyoma of the scrotum: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19068127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-381
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