Aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva: An uncommon entity

Aggressive angiomyxoma is a rare, locally invasive mesenchymal tumor occurring usually in women of reproductive age, which carries a high risk for local relapse; hence the need to differentiate it from the other mesenchymal tumors occurring in this region. We describe a case of a 44-year-old female...

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Autores principales: Kura, Mahendra M., Jindal, Saurabh R., Khemani, Usha N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23130288
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.96712
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author Kura, Mahendra M.
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description Aggressive angiomyxoma is a rare, locally invasive mesenchymal tumor occurring usually in women of reproductive age, which carries a high risk for local relapse; hence the need to differentiate it from the other mesenchymal tumors occurring in this region. We describe a case of a 44-year-old female presenting with a large pedunculated swelling on the right labia majora.
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spelling pubmed-34818812012-11-05 Aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva: An uncommon entity Kura, Mahendra M. Jindal, Saurabh R. Khemani, Usha N. Indian Dermatol Online J Case Report Aggressive angiomyxoma is a rare, locally invasive mesenchymal tumor occurring usually in women of reproductive age, which carries a high risk for local relapse; hence the need to differentiate it from the other mesenchymal tumors occurring in this region. We describe a case of a 44-year-old female presenting with a large pedunculated swelling on the right labia majora. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3481881/ /pubmed/23130288 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.96712 Text en Copyright: © Indian Dermatology Online Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva: An uncommon entity
title Aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva: An uncommon entity
title_full Aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva: An uncommon entity
title_fullStr Aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva: An uncommon entity
title_full_unstemmed Aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva: An uncommon entity
title_short Aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva: An uncommon entity
title_sort aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva: an uncommon entity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23130288
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.96712
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