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Uterine leiomyosarcoma with central nervous system metastases
Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare tumour and comprises 2–3% of all malignant uterus neoplasms [1]. Leiomyosarcoma is characterised by aggressive behaviour, high recurrence rates, and poor overall survival, despite multimodal treatment [3]. Surgery is the main treatment and consists of total abdominal h...
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Cancer Intelligence
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350572/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25767563 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2015.515 |
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author | Abrahão, Carina Meira Maluf, Fernando Cotait |
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description | Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare tumour and comprises 2–3% of all malignant uterus neoplasms [1]. Leiomyosarcoma is characterised by aggressive behaviour, high recurrence rates, and poor overall survival, despite multimodal treatment [3]. Surgery is the main treatment and consists of total abdominal hysterectomy. A randomised trial consisting of 224 patients diagnosed with uterine sarcomas stage I and II showed that adjuvant radiotherapy improves locoregional control. The role of adjuvant chemotherapy is still unclear [1]. Unfortunately, roughly 50% of patients with organ-confined disease will usually develop distant metastasis to lung, peritoneum, liver, pelvic, and para-aortic lymph nodes. Brain metastases are extremely rare [5]. |
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spelling | pubmed-43505722015-03-12 Uterine leiomyosarcoma with central nervous system metastases Abrahão, Carina Meira Maluf, Fernando Cotait Ecancermedicalscience Case Report Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare tumour and comprises 2–3% of all malignant uterus neoplasms [1]. Leiomyosarcoma is characterised by aggressive behaviour, high recurrence rates, and poor overall survival, despite multimodal treatment [3]. Surgery is the main treatment and consists of total abdominal hysterectomy. A randomised trial consisting of 224 patients diagnosed with uterine sarcomas stage I and II showed that adjuvant radiotherapy improves locoregional control. The role of adjuvant chemotherapy is still unclear [1]. Unfortunately, roughly 50% of patients with organ-confined disease will usually develop distant metastasis to lung, peritoneum, liver, pelvic, and para-aortic lymph nodes. Brain metastases are extremely rare [5]. Cancer Intelligence 2015-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4350572/ /pubmed/25767563 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2015.515 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Abrahão, Carina Meira Maluf, Fernando Cotait Uterine leiomyosarcoma with central nervous system metastases |
title | Uterine leiomyosarcoma with central nervous system metastases |
title_full | Uterine leiomyosarcoma with central nervous system metastases |
title_fullStr | Uterine leiomyosarcoma with central nervous system metastases |
title_full_unstemmed | Uterine leiomyosarcoma with central nervous system metastases |
title_short | Uterine leiomyosarcoma with central nervous system metastases |
title_sort | uterine leiomyosarcoma with central nervous system metastases |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350572/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25767563 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2015.515 |
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