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Vulvar leiomyoma: a case report
Leiomyomas represent about 3.8% of all benign soft tissue tumors. Vulvar localization is very rare. We present a case of a vulvar leiomyoma and discuss diagnostic and therapeutic features of this disease. A 30-year-old female patient with no medical history, had a 5cm mass located in the left large...
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6620087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312320 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.208.18480 |
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author | Ammouri, Safaa Elkarkri, Chourouk Zeraidi, Najia Lakhdar, Amina Baydada, Abdelaziz |
author_facet | Ammouri, Safaa Elkarkri, Chourouk Zeraidi, Najia Lakhdar, Amina Baydada, Abdelaziz |
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description | Leiomyomas represent about 3.8% of all benign soft tissue tumors. Vulvar localization is very rare. We present a case of a vulvar leiomyoma and discuss diagnostic and therapeutic features of this disease. A 30-year-old female patient with no medical history, had a 5cm mass located in the left large lip causing a discomfort at the perineum especially in sitting and walking. She underwent a complete surgical excision of the mass. The pathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of a leiomyoma. There was no recurrence after 24-months' follow-up. The vulvar leiomyoma is a rare benign tumor. The diagnosis is made only postoperatively after resection of the mass. The treatment is essentially based on total excision of the mass with a good prognosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-66200872019-07-16 Vulvar leiomyoma: a case report Ammouri, Safaa Elkarkri, Chourouk Zeraidi, Najia Lakhdar, Amina Baydada, Abdelaziz Pan Afr Med J Case Report Leiomyomas represent about 3.8% of all benign soft tissue tumors. Vulvar localization is very rare. We present a case of a vulvar leiomyoma and discuss diagnostic and therapeutic features of this disease. A 30-year-old female patient with no medical history, had a 5cm mass located in the left large lip causing a discomfort at the perineum especially in sitting and walking. She underwent a complete surgical excision of the mass. The pathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of a leiomyoma. There was no recurrence after 24-months' follow-up. The vulvar leiomyoma is a rare benign tumor. The diagnosis is made only postoperatively after resection of the mass. The treatment is essentially based on total excision of the mass with a good prognosis. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6620087/ /pubmed/31312320 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.208.18480 Text en © Safaa Ammouri et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Ammouri, Safaa Elkarkri, Chourouk Zeraidi, Najia Lakhdar, Amina Baydada, Abdelaziz Vulvar leiomyoma: a case report |
title | Vulvar leiomyoma: a case report |
title_full | Vulvar leiomyoma: a case report |
title_fullStr | Vulvar leiomyoma: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Vulvar leiomyoma: a case report |
title_short | Vulvar leiomyoma: a case report |
title_sort | vulvar leiomyoma: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6620087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312320 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.208.18480 |
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