Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: report of three cases

Benign metastasizing leiomyoma is very rare and usually occurs in women who undergo hysterectomy and myomectomy for uterine leiomyoma. This is a benign spindle-shaped smooth muscle cell tumor pathologically but metastasizes to the extrauterine organs. Lungs are the most common site of metastasis. We...

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Autores principales: Jeon, Hyun Woo, Choi, Soo Hwan, Sung, Sook Whan, Park, Jae Kil
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24139514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-281
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author Jeon, Hyun Woo
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description Benign metastasizing leiomyoma is very rare and usually occurs in women who undergo hysterectomy and myomectomy for uterine leiomyoma. This is a benign spindle-shaped smooth muscle cell tumor pathologically but metastasizes to the extrauterine organs. Lungs are the most common site of metastasis. We observed three cases of pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma.
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spelling pubmed-38284802013-11-16 Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: report of three cases Jeon, Hyun Woo Choi, Soo Hwan Sung, Sook Whan Park, Jae Kil World J Surg Oncol Case Report Benign metastasizing leiomyoma is very rare and usually occurs in women who undergo hysterectomy and myomectomy for uterine leiomyoma. This is a benign spindle-shaped smooth muscle cell tumor pathologically but metastasizes to the extrauterine organs. Lungs are the most common site of metastasis. We observed three cases of pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma. BioMed Central 2013-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3828480/ /pubmed/24139514 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-281 Text en Copyright © 2013 Jeon 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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Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: report of three cases
title Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: report of three cases
title_full Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: report of three cases
title_fullStr Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: report of three cases
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: report of three cases
title_short Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: report of three cases
title_sort pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: report of three cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24139514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-281
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