High-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma presenting in a 28-year-old woman during pregnancy: a case report.
BACKGROUND
To the best of our knowledge, soft tissue sarcomas have not prevously been reported as a complication during pregnancy.


METHODS
A 28-year-old Caucasian woman was diagnosed with a transperitoneal sarcoma during pregnancy. Morphological, immunohistochemical, chromosomal and mutational analyses pointed towards a high-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma. Although surgery and chemotherapy are possible during pregnancy, we were unable to perform these in this case.


CONCLUSIONS
The potential to treat gynecological cancer during pregnancy should always be assessed individually.
Amant
Frédéric
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Gynecologic Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute (LKI), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. frederic.amant@uz.kuleuven.ac.be.
Van Calsteren
Kristel
K
Debiec-Rychter
Maria
M
Heyns
Liesbeth
L
De Beeck
Katya Op
KO
Sagaert
Xavier
X
Bollen
Bart
B
Vergote
Ignace
I