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Vulvar Leiomyosarcoma Masquerading as a Bartholin’s Gland Cyst in an Adolescent

Sarcomas, tumors of mesenchymal origin, comprise a small percentage of all malignant tumors and are often challenging to diagnose. Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare form of cancer arising from smooth muscle cells. While a soft tissue sarcoma diagnosis is rare in and of itself, LMS diagnosis at an adole...

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Autores principales: Reinicke, Trenton, Anderson, Danyon J, Kumar, Devesh, Griggs, Cornelia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8884453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35242463
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21674
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author Reinicke, Trenton
Anderson, Danyon J
Kumar, Devesh
Griggs, Cornelia
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description Sarcomas, tumors of mesenchymal origin, comprise a small percentage of all malignant tumors and are often challenging to diagnose. Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare form of cancer arising from smooth muscle cells. While a soft tissue sarcoma diagnosis is rare in and of itself, LMS diagnosis at an adolescent age is even more unique. Vulvar LMS can easily be misdiagnosed as a benign vaginal lesion, leading to a delay in proper treatment and poorer outcomes. In this case, we present a 14-year-old female who was diagnosed with a grade 2 vulvar LMS that clinically mimicked a Bartholin’s gland cyst.
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spelling pubmed-88844532022-03-02 Vulvar Leiomyosarcoma Masquerading as a Bartholin’s Gland Cyst in an Adolescent Reinicke, Trenton Anderson, Danyon J Kumar, Devesh Griggs, Cornelia Cureus Pediatric Surgery Sarcomas, tumors of mesenchymal origin, comprise a small percentage of all malignant tumors and are often challenging to diagnose. Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare form of cancer arising from smooth muscle cells. While a soft tissue sarcoma diagnosis is rare in and of itself, LMS diagnosis at an adolescent age is even more unique. Vulvar LMS can easily be misdiagnosed as a benign vaginal lesion, leading to a delay in proper treatment and poorer outcomes. In this case, we present a 14-year-old female who was diagnosed with a grade 2 vulvar LMS that clinically mimicked a Bartholin’s gland cyst. Cureus 2022-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8884453/ /pubmed/35242463 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21674 Text en Copyright © 2022, Reinicke 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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Reinicke, Trenton
Anderson, Danyon J
Kumar, Devesh
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Vulvar Leiomyosarcoma Masquerading as a Bartholin’s Gland Cyst in an Adolescent
title Vulvar Leiomyosarcoma Masquerading as a Bartholin’s Gland Cyst in an Adolescent
title_full Vulvar Leiomyosarcoma Masquerading as a Bartholin’s Gland Cyst in an Adolescent
title_fullStr Vulvar Leiomyosarcoma Masquerading as a Bartholin’s Gland Cyst in an Adolescent
title_full_unstemmed Vulvar Leiomyosarcoma Masquerading as a Bartholin’s Gland Cyst in an Adolescent
title_short Vulvar Leiomyosarcoma Masquerading as a Bartholin’s Gland Cyst in an Adolescent
title_sort vulvar leiomyosarcoma masquerading as a bartholin’s gland cyst in an adolescent
topic Pediatric Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8884453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35242463
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21674
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