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Angiofibroma of the Vagina Presenting with Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding: A Case Report from Ethiopia and Review of the Literature

BACKGROUND: Angiofibroma is an uncommon type of vascular benign tumor that is made up of blood vessels and fibrous (connective) tissue. First described in 1997, it usually occurs in middle aged females and is clinically often thought to represent a cyst. Unlike most of the other site specific vulvov...

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Autores principales: Arega, Chuchu, Girma, Wubshet, Sanchez Diaz, Jose Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31275678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1486387
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author Arega, Chuchu
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Sanchez Diaz, Jose Manuel
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description BACKGROUND: Angiofibroma is an uncommon type of vascular benign tumor that is made up of blood vessels and fibrous (connective) tissue. First described in 1997, it usually occurs in middle aged females and is clinically often thought to represent a cyst. Unlike most of the other site specific vulvovaginal mesenchymal lesions, cellular angiofibroma has a marked predilection for the vulva with only occasional examples reported in the vagina. CASE DETAIL: A 17-year adolescent nulligravid girl presented with a history of irregular vaginal bleeding of two-year duration and history of lower abdominal swelling; on examination, she had pale conjunctiva, 20-week sized firm, irregular, nontender abdominopelvic mass, and a firm huge anterior vaginal wall mass, with difficulty to reach at the cervix and hemoglobin of 9.7 gm/dL, and a diagnosis of cervical myoma plus anemia was made, which was supported by imaging studies. Finally it was found to be angiofibroma of the vagina. CONCLUSION: Angiofibromas are benign tumors, which rarely occur in vagina. Although middle aged females are affected more, angiofibromas can affect females of reproductive age group and can cause abnormal uterine bleeding.
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spelling pubmed-65828282019-07-04 Angiofibroma of the Vagina Presenting with Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding: A Case Report from Ethiopia and Review of the Literature Arega, Chuchu Girma, Wubshet Sanchez Diaz, Jose Manuel Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report BACKGROUND: Angiofibroma is an uncommon type of vascular benign tumor that is made up of blood vessels and fibrous (connective) tissue. First described in 1997, it usually occurs in middle aged females and is clinically often thought to represent a cyst. Unlike most of the other site specific vulvovaginal mesenchymal lesions, cellular angiofibroma has a marked predilection for the vulva with only occasional examples reported in the vagina. CASE DETAIL: A 17-year adolescent nulligravid girl presented with a history of irregular vaginal bleeding of two-year duration and history of lower abdominal swelling; on examination, she had pale conjunctiva, 20-week sized firm, irregular, nontender abdominopelvic mass, and a firm huge anterior vaginal wall mass, with difficulty to reach at the cervix and hemoglobin of 9.7 gm/dL, and a diagnosis of cervical myoma plus anemia was made, which was supported by imaging studies. Finally it was found to be angiofibroma of the vagina. CONCLUSION: Angiofibromas are benign tumors, which rarely occur in vagina. Although middle aged females are affected more, angiofibromas can affect females of reproductive age group and can cause abnormal uterine bleeding. Hindawi 2019-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6582828/ /pubmed/31275678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1486387 Text en Copyright © 2019 Chuchu Arega 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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Angiofibroma of the Vagina Presenting with Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding: A Case Report from Ethiopia and Review of the Literature
title Angiofibroma of the Vagina Presenting with Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding: A Case Report from Ethiopia and Review of the Literature
title_full Angiofibroma of the Vagina Presenting with Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding: A Case Report from Ethiopia and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Angiofibroma of the Vagina Presenting with Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding: A Case Report from Ethiopia and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Angiofibroma of the Vagina Presenting with Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding: A Case Report from Ethiopia and Review of the Literature
title_short Angiofibroma of the Vagina Presenting with Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding: A Case Report from Ethiopia and Review of the Literature
title_sort angiofibroma of the vagina presenting with abnormal vaginal bleeding: a case report from ethiopia and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31275678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1486387
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