[Clinicopathological analysis of leiomyosarcomas of the small intestine and a review of the Japanese literature].
An analysis has been made of 9 cases of a leiomyosarcoma of the small intestine that were treated from 1974 through 1989. In two patients (22.2%), a perforation was seen, and a case report of a 59-year-old woman is presented. Further, case reports of leiomyosarcomas in the Japanese literature from 1980 through 1989 were clinico-pathologically analyzed. The frequency of a perforation was found to be 8.6%, and the distribution of the perforated leiomyosarcomas was the same as for the non-perforated cases. The five-year postoperative survival rate was 41.2%. Of note is that 3 out of 10 patients that had survived for 5 years subsequently died of sarcomatosis.
Matsuda
K
K
Dept. of Surgery, Fukui Prefectural Hospital.
Hosokawa
O
O
Kaizaki
T
T
Takashima
Y
Y
Kasahara
Y
Y
Misaki
H
H
Murakita
K
K
Nakagawa
K
K
Takeda
T
T
Tanikawa
Y
Y
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000209:etiology; D007421:Intestine, Small; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D007580:Jejunal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015996:Survival Rate