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Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Lung: Diagnostic Process and Treatment Based on Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature

Uterine leiomyomas may occasionally spread to the lungs forming nodular lesions detectable on chest X-ray. This condition known as benign metastasizing leiomyoma (BML) usually occurs in females with a history of hysterectomy or myomectomy. We present three cases of BML demonstrating the diagnostic p...

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Autores principales: Wojtyś, Małgorzata Edyta, Kacalska-Janssen, Olga, Ptaszyński, Konrad, Lisowski, Piotr, Kunc, Michał, Wójcik, Janusz, Grodzki, Tomasz
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9599094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36289727
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10102465
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author Wojtyś, Małgorzata Edyta
Kacalska-Janssen, Olga
Ptaszyński, Konrad
Lisowski, Piotr
Kunc, Michał
Wójcik, Janusz
Grodzki, Tomasz
author_facet Wojtyś, Małgorzata Edyta
Kacalska-Janssen, Olga
Ptaszyński, Konrad
Lisowski, Piotr
Kunc, Michał
Wójcik, Janusz
Grodzki, Tomasz
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description Uterine leiomyomas may occasionally spread to the lungs forming nodular lesions detectable on chest X-ray. This condition known as benign metastasizing leiomyoma (BML) usually occurs in females with a history of hysterectomy or myomectomy. We present three cases of BML demonstrating the diagnostic process and treatment approaches. Two patients presented with the more common multiple-nodule variant while the other had a single mass, but all were symptom-free. The age of presented patients at diagnosis of BML ranged from 46–53. The first patient was diagnosed with BML at the age of 50, and 12 years prior to the diagnosis, underwent a supracervical hysterectomy. The second patient had a myomectomy at 36, and BML was diagnosed 17 years later at the age of 53. The third patient had a hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy at the age of 46, with lung lesions present before the hysterectomy. Immunohistochemical studies of postoperative materials showed positive staining of spindle cells with antibodies against desmin and smooth muscle actin, as well as estrogen and progesterone receptors. The final histopathological diagnoses were pulmonary BML. All patients are stable and symptom-free: two at two years follow-up and one at six months follow-up
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spelling pubmed-95990942022-10-27 Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Lung: Diagnostic Process and Treatment Based on Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature Wojtyś, Małgorzata Edyta Kacalska-Janssen, Olga Ptaszyński, Konrad Lisowski, Piotr Kunc, Michał Wójcik, Janusz Grodzki, Tomasz Biomedicines Case Report Uterine leiomyomas may occasionally spread to the lungs forming nodular lesions detectable on chest X-ray. This condition known as benign metastasizing leiomyoma (BML) usually occurs in females with a history of hysterectomy or myomectomy. We present three cases of BML demonstrating the diagnostic process and treatment approaches. Two patients presented with the more common multiple-nodule variant while the other had a single mass, but all were symptom-free. The age of presented patients at diagnosis of BML ranged from 46–53. The first patient was diagnosed with BML at the age of 50, and 12 years prior to the diagnosis, underwent a supracervical hysterectomy. The second patient had a myomectomy at 36, and BML was diagnosed 17 years later at the age of 53. The third patient had a hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy at the age of 46, with lung lesions present before the hysterectomy. Immunohistochemical studies of postoperative materials showed positive staining of spindle cells with antibodies against desmin and smooth muscle actin, as well as estrogen and progesterone receptors. The final histopathological diagnoses were pulmonary BML. All patients are stable and symptom-free: two at two years follow-up and one at six months follow-up MDPI 2022-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9599094/ /pubmed/36289727 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10102465 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wojtyś, Małgorzata Edyta
Kacalska-Janssen, Olga
Ptaszyński, Konrad
Lisowski, Piotr
Kunc, Michał
Wójcik, Janusz
Grodzki, Tomasz
Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Lung: Diagnostic Process and Treatment Based on Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature
title Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Lung: Diagnostic Process and Treatment Based on Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature
title_full Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Lung: Diagnostic Process and Treatment Based on Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Lung: Diagnostic Process and Treatment Based on Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Lung: Diagnostic Process and Treatment Based on Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature
title_short Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Lung: Diagnostic Process and Treatment Based on Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature
title_sort benign metastasizing leiomyoma of the lung: diagnostic process and treatment based on three case reports and a review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9599094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36289727
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10102465
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