Metastatic carcinoma in uterine leiomyoma.
Metastasis of tumours are known to occur in the rarest of sites in the human body. But one of the truly rare phenomena in surgical pathology is to find the metastasis of one tumour into another. We report one such case of metastatic carcinoma in uterine leiomyoma from an occult primary site.
Lanjewar
D N
DN
Department of Pathology, Grant Medical College, Bombay, India.
Shetty
C R
CR
D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary / Q000473:pathology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*