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Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML): A rare cause of cavitary and cystic pulmonary nodules

Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML) is a rare cause of pulmonary lesions found in reproductive age women who have undergone a hysterectomy for uterine leiomyoma. Given the relative rarity of the disease, the management of these lesions varies from surgical (oopherectomy) or medical antiestroge...

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Autores principales: Jolissaint, Joshua S., Kilbourne, Sarah K., LaFortune, Kristen, Patel, Manojkumar, Lau, Christine L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26744676
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.09.008
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author Jolissaint, Joshua S.
Kilbourne, Sarah K.
LaFortune, Kristen
Patel, Manojkumar
Lau, Christine L.
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description Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML) is a rare cause of pulmonary lesions found in reproductive age women who have undergone a hysterectomy for uterine leiomyoma. Given the relative rarity of the disease, the management of these lesions varies from surgical (oopherectomy) or medical antiestrogen hormonal therapy to clinical observation and survelliance. The disease generally presents asymptomatically with multiple, well-defined pulmonary nodules discovered incidentally on imaging. We report an atypical presentation of a 46-year-old woman with incidentally found bilateral pulmonary cavitating nodules and cysts, concerning for lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), who was ultimately diagnosed with BML.
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spelling pubmed-46819822016-01-07 Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML): A rare cause of cavitary and cystic pulmonary nodules Jolissaint, Joshua S. Kilbourne, Sarah K. LaFortune, Kristen Patel, Manojkumar Lau, Christine L. Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML) is a rare cause of pulmonary lesions found in reproductive age women who have undergone a hysterectomy for uterine leiomyoma. Given the relative rarity of the disease, the management of these lesions varies from surgical (oopherectomy) or medical antiestrogen hormonal therapy to clinical observation and survelliance. The disease generally presents asymptomatically with multiple, well-defined pulmonary nodules discovered incidentally on imaging. We report an atypical presentation of a 46-year-old woman with incidentally found bilateral pulmonary cavitating nodules and cysts, concerning for lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), who was ultimately diagnosed with BML. Elsevier 2015-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4681982/ /pubmed/26744676 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.09.008 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML): A rare cause of cavitary and cystic pulmonary nodules
title Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML): A rare cause of cavitary and cystic pulmonary nodules
title_full Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML): A rare cause of cavitary and cystic pulmonary nodules
title_fullStr Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML): A rare cause of cavitary and cystic pulmonary nodules
title_full_unstemmed Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML): A rare cause of cavitary and cystic pulmonary nodules
title_short Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML): A rare cause of cavitary and cystic pulmonary nodules
title_sort benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (bml): a rare cause of cavitary and cystic pulmonary nodules
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26744676
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.09.008
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