An Unusual Presentation of Pelvic Leiomyomatosis Misdiagnosed as Disseminated Malignancy

Leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata (LPD) is an exceedingly rare, usually benign condition that clinically simulates a disseminated malignancy, occurring predominantly in women of childbearing age. We present a case of LPD in a postmenopausal woman who had undergone hysterectomy 8 years back for...

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Autores principales: Marwah, Nisha, Duhan, Amrita, Aggarwal, Garima, Sen, Rajeev
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/PMC3502812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/394106
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author Marwah, Nisha
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description Leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata (LPD) is an exceedingly rare, usually benign condition that clinically simulates a disseminated malignancy, occurring predominantly in women of childbearing age. We present a case of LPD in a postmenopausal woman who had undergone hysterectomy 8 years back for fibroids along with simultaneous presence of pelvic metastasis from breast carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-35028122012-11-29 An Unusual Presentation of Pelvic Leiomyomatosis Misdiagnosed as Disseminated Malignancy Marwah, Nisha Duhan, Amrita Aggarwal, Garima Sen, Rajeev Case Rep Pathol Case Report Leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata (LPD) is an exceedingly rare, usually benign condition that clinically simulates a disseminated malignancy, occurring predominantly in women of childbearing age. We present a case of LPD in a postmenopausal woman who had undergone hysterectomy 8 years back for fibroids along with simultaneous presence of pelvic metastasis from breast carcinoma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3502812/ /pubmed/23198231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/394106 Text en Copyright © 2012 Nisha Marwah 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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An Unusual Presentation of Pelvic Leiomyomatosis Misdiagnosed as Disseminated Malignancy
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title_short An Unusual Presentation of Pelvic Leiomyomatosis Misdiagnosed as Disseminated Malignancy
title_sort unusual presentation of pelvic leiomyomatosis misdiagnosed as disseminated malignancy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/394106
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