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Leiomyoma of the Greater Saphenous Vein Mimicking Inguinal Lymphadenopathy

Introduction. Leiomyoma is a benign vascular tumor affecting the greater saphenous vein rarely. Proper histopathological examination sets the diagnosis after complete and wide surgical excision along with a normal portion of the GSV. Case Presentation. A 36-year-old woman was admitted to our hospita...

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Autores principales: Dellaportas, Dionysios, Kotsis, Thomas, Carvounis, Eleni, Samanides, Lazaros
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3865633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24363945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/237391
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author Dellaportas, Dionysios
Kotsis, Thomas
Carvounis, Eleni
Samanides, Lazaros
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description Introduction. Leiomyoma is a benign vascular tumor affecting the greater saphenous vein rarely. Proper histopathological examination sets the diagnosis after complete and wide surgical excision along with a normal portion of the GSV. Case Presentation. A 36-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of a dull ache on her right groin for the last three months, along with a palpable mass on the mentioned area. An ultrasound (U/S) scan revealed a solid mass measuring 3 × 2 cm. After wide surgical excision, pathological examination revealed a leiomyoma of the GSV. Discussion. Benign and mostly malignant tumors arising from the GSV are reported in the literature before. Diagnostic modalities and clinical examination cannot set a correct diagnosis preoperatively due to no specific characteristics of these tumors. Possible sarcomatous behaviour has to be kept in mind when treating tumors arising from a vessel wall and wide surgical excision as negative margins should be attempted.
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spelling pubmed-38656332013-12-22 Leiomyoma of the Greater Saphenous Vein Mimicking Inguinal Lymphadenopathy Dellaportas, Dionysios Kotsis, Thomas Carvounis, Eleni Samanides, Lazaros Case Rep Surg Case Report Introduction. Leiomyoma is a benign vascular tumor affecting the greater saphenous vein rarely. Proper histopathological examination sets the diagnosis after complete and wide surgical excision along with a normal portion of the GSV. Case Presentation. A 36-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of a dull ache on her right groin for the last three months, along with a palpable mass on the mentioned area. An ultrasound (U/S) scan revealed a solid mass measuring 3 × 2 cm. After wide surgical excision, pathological examination revealed a leiomyoma of the GSV. Discussion. Benign and mostly malignant tumors arising from the GSV are reported in the literature before. Diagnostic modalities and clinical examination cannot set a correct diagnosis preoperatively due to no specific characteristics of these tumors. Possible sarcomatous behaviour has to be kept in mind when treating tumors arising from a vessel wall and wide surgical excision as negative margins should be attempted. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3865633/ /pubmed/24363945 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/237391 Text en Copyright © 2013 Dionysios Dellaportas 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 Greater Saphenous Vein Mimicking Inguinal Lymphadenopathy
title Leiomyoma of the Greater Saphenous Vein Mimicking Inguinal Lymphadenopathy
title_full Leiomyoma of the Greater Saphenous Vein Mimicking Inguinal Lymphadenopathy
title_fullStr Leiomyoma of the Greater Saphenous Vein Mimicking Inguinal Lymphadenopathy
title_full_unstemmed Leiomyoma of the Greater Saphenous Vein Mimicking Inguinal Lymphadenopathy
title_short Leiomyoma of the Greater Saphenous Vein Mimicking Inguinal Lymphadenopathy
title_sort leiomyoma of the greater saphenous vein mimicking inguinal lymphadenopathy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3865633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24363945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/237391
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