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Vaginal Endosalpingiosis Case Report: A Rare Entity Presenting as Intermenstrual Bleeding

Endosalpingiosis is a benign and rare entity whose pathophysiology remains unknown. It has been described in pelvic organs, the abdomen, or axillar lymph nodes. Its underrecognition has occasionally led to its misinterpretation for an adenocarcinoma. This case reports the treatment and follow-up of...

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Autores principales: Câmara, Sara, Mendinhos, Gustavo, Madureira, Rosa, Martins, Amália, Veríssimo, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29250450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2424392
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author Câmara, Sara
Mendinhos, Gustavo
Madureira, Rosa
Martins, Amália
Veríssimo, Carlos
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Madureira, Rosa
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description Endosalpingiosis is a benign and rare entity whose pathophysiology remains unknown. It has been described in pelvic organs, the abdomen, or axillar lymph nodes. Its underrecognition has occasionally led to its misinterpretation for an adenocarcinoma. This case reports the treatment and follow-up of vaginal endosalpingiosis, presenting as a vaginal polyp in a premenopausal women with intermenstrual bleeding. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of vaginal endosalpingiosis and the second mucosal localization after bladder endosalpingiosis.
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spelling pubmed-57004792017-12-17 Vaginal Endosalpingiosis Case Report: A Rare Entity Presenting as Intermenstrual Bleeding Câmara, Sara Mendinhos, Gustavo Madureira, Rosa Martins, Amália Veríssimo, Carlos Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Endosalpingiosis is a benign and rare entity whose pathophysiology remains unknown. It has been described in pelvic organs, the abdomen, or axillar lymph nodes. Its underrecognition has occasionally led to its misinterpretation for an adenocarcinoma. This case reports the treatment and follow-up of vaginal endosalpingiosis, presenting as a vaginal polyp in a premenopausal women with intermenstrual bleeding. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of vaginal endosalpingiosis and the second mucosal localization after bladder endosalpingiosis. Hindawi 2017 2017-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5700479/ /pubmed/29250450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2424392 Text en Copyright © 2017 Sara Câmara et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Vaginal Endosalpingiosis Case Report: A Rare Entity Presenting as Intermenstrual Bleeding
title Vaginal Endosalpingiosis Case Report: A Rare Entity Presenting as Intermenstrual Bleeding
title_full Vaginal Endosalpingiosis Case Report: A Rare Entity Presenting as Intermenstrual Bleeding
title_fullStr Vaginal Endosalpingiosis Case Report: A Rare Entity Presenting as Intermenstrual Bleeding
title_full_unstemmed Vaginal Endosalpingiosis Case Report: A Rare Entity Presenting as Intermenstrual Bleeding
title_short Vaginal Endosalpingiosis Case Report: A Rare Entity Presenting as Intermenstrual Bleeding
title_sort vaginal endosalpingiosis case report: a rare entity presenting as intermenstrual bleeding
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29250450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2424392
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