Leiomyoma of the Female Urethra—A Rare Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Leiomyoma is a benign smooth muscle tumor which is rarely found in urethra. Only a handful of cases have been reported in the literature. We hereby report a case of urethral leiomyoma in a twenty-seven-year-old female who presented with intermittent hematuria. Mass was completely excised with a rim...

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Autores principales: Pahwa, Mrinal, Saifee, Yusuf, Pahwa, Archna R., Gupta, Manu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22844631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/280816
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author Pahwa, Mrinal
Saifee, Yusuf
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description Leiomyoma is a benign smooth muscle tumor which is rarely found in urethra. Only a handful of cases have been reported in the literature. We hereby report a case of urethral leiomyoma in a twenty-seven-year-old female who presented with intermittent hematuria. Mass was completely excised with a rim of normal tissue. Patient remained asymptomatic with no evidence of recurrence in followup.
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spelling pubmed-34031172012-07-27 Leiomyoma of the Female Urethra—A Rare Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature Pahwa, Mrinal Saifee, Yusuf Pahwa, Archna R. Gupta, Manu Case Rep Urol Case Report Leiomyoma is a benign smooth muscle tumor which is rarely found in urethra. Only a handful of cases have been reported in the literature. We hereby report a case of urethral leiomyoma in a twenty-seven-year-old female who presented with intermittent hematuria. Mass was completely excised with a rim of normal tissue. Patient remained asymptomatic with no evidence of recurrence in followup. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3403117/ /pubmed/22844631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/280816 Text en Copyright © 2012 Mrinal Pahwa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Leiomyoma of the Female Urethra—A Rare Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature
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title_short Leiomyoma of the Female Urethra—A Rare Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort leiomyoma of the female urethra—a rare tumor: case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22844631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/280816
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