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Uterine Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor

Uterine primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs) are rare entities, with only around 70 cases published in the literature. Most of them are diagnosed in advanced stages with rapid progression and poor prognosis. Herein, we present a case of a 71-year-old patient with postmenopausal metrorrhagia and...

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Autores principales: Benitez Delgado, Taysa, Laseca-Modrego, Maria, Gonzalez Garcia-Cano, Daniel, Rave Ramirez, Andres, Arencibia-Sánchez, Octavio
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8366186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34422469
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16437
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author Benitez Delgado, Taysa
Laseca-Modrego, Maria
Gonzalez Garcia-Cano, Daniel
Rave Ramirez, Andres
Arencibia-Sánchez, Octavio
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description Uterine primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs) are rare entities, with only around 70 cases published in the literature. Most of them are diagnosed in advanced stages with rapid progression and poor prognosis. Herein, we present a case of a 71-year-old patient with postmenopausal metrorrhagia and an ultrasound finding of endometrial thickening. The pathological diagnosis after an endometrial biopsy showed PNET. In the study of extension, possible distant dissemination with infiltration of the sigmoid and liver was observed. Chemotherapy treatment was proposed, but not begun due to the rapid progression of the disease. Four months after the initial diagnosis, the patient died of multiple organ failure. While there is no optimal chemotherapy treatment regimen for PNET, some studies have reported encouraging results. It is necessary to publish more studies emphasizing the follow-up and survival of the disease to establish which may be the best treatment option and thus improve the current poor prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-83661862021-08-19 Uterine Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor Benitez Delgado, Taysa Laseca-Modrego, Maria Gonzalez Garcia-Cano, Daniel Rave Ramirez, Andres Arencibia-Sánchez, Octavio Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Uterine primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs) are rare entities, with only around 70 cases published in the literature. Most of them are diagnosed in advanced stages with rapid progression and poor prognosis. Herein, we present a case of a 71-year-old patient with postmenopausal metrorrhagia and an ultrasound finding of endometrial thickening. The pathological diagnosis after an endometrial biopsy showed PNET. In the study of extension, possible distant dissemination with infiltration of the sigmoid and liver was observed. Chemotherapy treatment was proposed, but not begun due to the rapid progression of the disease. Four months after the initial diagnosis, the patient died of multiple organ failure. While there is no optimal chemotherapy treatment regimen for PNET, some studies have reported encouraging results. It is necessary to publish more studies emphasizing the follow-up and survival of the disease to establish which may be the best treatment option and thus improve the current poor prognosis. Cureus 2021-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8366186/ /pubmed/34422469 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16437 Text en Copyright © 2021, Benitez Delgado et al. https://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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Uterine Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
title Uterine Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
title_full Uterine Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
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title_short Uterine Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
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topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8366186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34422469
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16437
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