title: Incidental finding of malignant mixed mesodermal tumor at hysterectomy for uterine prolapse. A case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The finding of unanticipated pathology in a uterus after vaginal hysterectomy for prolapse is uncommon.
  
  
  METHODS
  An incidental small malignant mixed mesodermal tumor was found at vaginal hysterectomy in a 68-year-old woman.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A MED-LINE search found no other reported cases of malignant mixed mesodermal tumor in a patient undergoing vaginal hysterectomy for uterine prolapse. Unexpected endometrial and cervical lesions will be discovered occasionally after hysterectomy for benign disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UH/E141, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ 07103, USA.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Heller
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sama
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D004717:Endometrium / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D018199:Mixed Tumor, Mesodermal / Q000473:pathology*; D014596:Uterine Prolapse / Q000601:surgery*