Spontaneous Regression of Recurrent Undifferentiated Carcinoma of the Endometrium

We herein report a very rare case of spontaneous regression of recurrent undifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium. An 80-year-old woman had undergone total hysterectomy with bilateral adnexectomy for undifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium. The cancer recurred locally 10 months after surg...

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Autores principales: Ishii, Tadashi, Takayama, Shin, Abe, Michiaki, Kuroda, Hitoshi, Tanaka, Junichi, Numata, Takehiro, Kikuchi, Akiko, Ohsawa, Minoru, Kaneko, Souichiro, Saito, Natsumi, Arita, Ryutaro, Itakura, Yuko
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Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713298
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.0376-17
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author Ishii, Tadashi
Takayama, Shin
Abe, Michiaki
Kuroda, Hitoshi
Tanaka, Junichi
Numata, Takehiro
Kikuchi, Akiko
Ohsawa, Minoru
Kaneko, Souichiro
Saito, Natsumi
Arita, Ryutaro
Itakura, Yuko
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Takayama, Shin
Abe, Michiaki
Kuroda, Hitoshi
Tanaka, Junichi
Numata, Takehiro
Kikuchi, Akiko
Ohsawa, Minoru
Kaneko, Souichiro
Saito, Natsumi
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description We herein report a very rare case of spontaneous regression of recurrent undifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium. An 80-year-old woman had undergone total hysterectomy with bilateral adnexectomy for undifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium. The cancer recurred locally 10 months after surgery and then metastasized to the lung and liver. After she and her family elected to receive supportive care without active treatment, the local recurrences dramatically decreased, and the metastases of the lung, liver, and peritoneum also disappeared. This case showed that spontaneous regression can occur even with malignant tumors showing an extremely poor prognosis, such as undifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium.
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spelling pubmed-65999342019-07-01 Spontaneous Regression of Recurrent Undifferentiated Carcinoma of the Endometrium Ishii, Tadashi Takayama, Shin Abe, Michiaki Kuroda, Hitoshi Tanaka, Junichi Numata, Takehiro Kikuchi, Akiko Ohsawa, Minoru Kaneko, Souichiro Saito, Natsumi Arita, Ryutaro Itakura, Yuko Intern Med Case Report We herein report a very rare case of spontaneous regression of recurrent undifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium. An 80-year-old woman had undergone total hysterectomy with bilateral adnexectomy for undifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium. The cancer recurred locally 10 months after surgery and then metastasized to the lung and liver. After she and her family elected to receive supportive care without active treatment, the local recurrences dramatically decreased, and the metastases of the lung, liver, and peritoneum also disappeared. This case showed that spontaneous regression can occur even with malignant tumors showing an extremely poor prognosis, such as undifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019-02-01 2019-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6599934/ /pubmed/30713298 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.0376-17 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Ishii, Tadashi
Takayama, Shin
Abe, Michiaki
Kuroda, Hitoshi
Tanaka, Junichi
Numata, Takehiro
Kikuchi, Akiko
Ohsawa, Minoru
Kaneko, Souichiro
Saito, Natsumi
Arita, Ryutaro
Itakura, Yuko
Spontaneous Regression of Recurrent Undifferentiated Carcinoma of the Endometrium
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title_fullStr Spontaneous Regression of Recurrent Undifferentiated Carcinoma of the Endometrium
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title_short Spontaneous Regression of Recurrent Undifferentiated Carcinoma of the Endometrium
title_sort spontaneous regression of recurrent undifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713298
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.0376-17
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