Aggressive angiomyxoma in pregnancy: A rare and commonly misdiagnosed entity

Aggressive angiomyxoma (AAM) is an uncommon mesenchymal tumor that predominantly involves the pelvis and perineum of young females. It is often clinically mistaken for more common superficial lesions such as vaginal cysts, labial cysts, and lipomas. A review of the medical literature reveals very fe...

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Autores principales: Malukani, Kamal, Varma, Amit V., Choudhary, Devashish, Dosi, Shilpi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5896197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29692596
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_179_17
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author Malukani, Kamal
Varma, Amit V.
Choudhary, Devashish
Dosi, Shilpi
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description Aggressive angiomyxoma (AAM) is an uncommon mesenchymal tumor that predominantly involves the pelvis and perineum of young females. It is often clinically mistaken for more common superficial lesions such as vaginal cysts, labial cysts, and lipomas. A review of the medical literature reveals very few cases of AAM reported in pregnancy. We describe a rare case of AAM in pregnancy, clinically misdiagnosed as prolapsed cervical fibroid.
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spelling pubmed-58961972018-04-24 Aggressive angiomyxoma in pregnancy: A rare and commonly misdiagnosed entity Malukani, Kamal Varma, Amit V. Choudhary, Devashish Dosi, Shilpi J Lab Physicians Case Report Aggressive angiomyxoma (AAM) is an uncommon mesenchymal tumor that predominantly involves the pelvis and perineum of young females. It is often clinically mistaken for more common superficial lesions such as vaginal cysts, labial cysts, and lipomas. A review of the medical literature reveals very few cases of AAM reported in pregnancy. We describe a rare case of AAM in pregnancy, clinically misdiagnosed as prolapsed cervical fibroid. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5896197/ /pubmed/29692596 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_179_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Laboratory Physicians http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Aggressive angiomyxoma in pregnancy: A rare and commonly misdiagnosed entity
title_fullStr Aggressive angiomyxoma in pregnancy: A rare and commonly misdiagnosed entity
title_full_unstemmed Aggressive angiomyxoma in pregnancy: A rare and commonly misdiagnosed entity
title_short Aggressive angiomyxoma in pregnancy: A rare and commonly misdiagnosed entity
title_sort aggressive angiomyxoma in pregnancy: a rare and commonly misdiagnosed entity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5896197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29692596
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_179_17
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