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Cancer Genes Mutations in Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Case Report

Benign metastasizing leiomyoma is a very uncommon clinicopathologic entity with unknown molecular pathogenesis. We present a case of a 40-year-old woman who has a history of surgical resection of a large uterine leiomyoma and then subsequently presented with benign metastasizing leiomyomas to her lu...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Thu-Cuc, Drew, Peter A, Dang, Long H, Yuan, Cai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6741366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31523581
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5154
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author Nguyen, Thu-Cuc
Drew, Peter A
Dang, Long H
Yuan, Cai
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description Benign metastasizing leiomyoma is a very uncommon clinicopathologic entity with unknown molecular pathogenesis. We present a case of a 40-year-old woman who has a history of surgical resection of a large uterine leiomyoma and then subsequently presented with benign metastasizing leiomyomas to her lungs. Due to her tumor being estrogen receptor (ER) positive and progesterone receptor (PR) positive, she was empirically treated with anastrozole with sustained clinical benefit. Molecular studies with Foundation One testing showed low mutational burden and mutational variants in five known cancer genes. Our findings have important clinical and pathogenetic implication for metastasizing uterine leiomyoma.
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spelling pubmed-67413662019-09-15 Cancer Genes Mutations in Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Case Report Nguyen, Thu-Cuc Drew, Peter A Dang, Long H Yuan, Cai Cureus Pathology Benign metastasizing leiomyoma is a very uncommon clinicopathologic entity with unknown molecular pathogenesis. We present a case of a 40-year-old woman who has a history of surgical resection of a large uterine leiomyoma and then subsequently presented with benign metastasizing leiomyomas to her lungs. Due to her tumor being estrogen receptor (ER) positive and progesterone receptor (PR) positive, she was empirically treated with anastrozole with sustained clinical benefit. Molecular studies with Foundation One testing showed low mutational burden and mutational variants in five known cancer genes. Our findings have important clinical and pathogenetic implication for metastasizing uterine leiomyoma. Cureus 2019-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6741366/ /pubmed/31523581 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5154 Text en Copyright © 2019, Nguyen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Nguyen, Thu-Cuc
Drew, Peter A
Dang, Long H
Yuan, Cai
Cancer Genes Mutations in Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Case Report
title Cancer Genes Mutations in Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Case Report
title_full Cancer Genes Mutations in Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Case Report
title_fullStr Cancer Genes Mutations in Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Cancer Genes Mutations in Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Case Report
title_short Cancer Genes Mutations in Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Case Report
title_sort cancer genes mutations in benign metastasizing leiomyoma: a case report
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6741366/
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