Uterine benign-appearing smooth muscle tumor "metastatic" to the lungs: a case report.
A case of pulmonary fibroleiomyomatosis secondary to a uterine "metastasizing" leiomyoma, with aspects of vascular invasion, is reported. Although we cannot exclude the existence of primitive pulmonary forms, which we do not consider to be of a hamartomatous nature, we believe that a careful examination of the uterus for the presence of angioinvasive leiomyoma is mandatory.
Canzonieri
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Istituti di Anatomia Patologica I, Università degli Studi, Padova.
Blandamura
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Zanella
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Capitanio
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*