{"title":"Primary Vaginal Leiomyosarcoma Mimicking Bartholin's Cyst.","authors":"Deepthy Balakrishnan, Saubhagya Kumar Jena, Pritinanda Mishra","doi":"10.4103/jmh.jmh_70_24","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Leiomyosarcomas (LMS) arise from smooth muscle cells with more predilection to the uterus, abdomen, retroperitoneum, and blood vessels. LMS of vagina is very rare and usually presents in the early stage as an asymptomatic mobile mass with no clinical features of malignancy and gives the appearance of a benign lesion which can easily be mistaken for a Bartholin's cyst or a vaginal fibroid. The chances of metastasis in LMS are high with poor survival rates. Histopathology confirms the diagnosis and treatment still remains controversial due to less data on this rare malignancy. Even though there is no evidence that leiomyoma can transform into LMS, benign-looking vaginal fibroids need to be resected to avoid misdiagnosis of LMS. We present a case of vaginal LMS which was mistaken to be Bartholin's cyst due to the lack of knowledge of this aggressive tumor and further management.</p>","PeriodicalId":37717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mid-life Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11321507/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Mid-life Health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jmh.jmh_70_24","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/7/5 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Leiomyosarcomas (LMS) arise from smooth muscle cells with more predilection to the uterus, abdomen, retroperitoneum, and blood vessels. LMS of vagina is very rare and usually presents in the early stage as an asymptomatic mobile mass with no clinical features of malignancy and gives the appearance of a benign lesion which can easily be mistaken for a Bartholin's cyst or a vaginal fibroid. The chances of metastasis in LMS are high with poor survival rates. Histopathology confirms the diagnosis and treatment still remains controversial due to less data on this rare malignancy. Even though there is no evidence that leiomyoma can transform into LMS, benign-looking vaginal fibroids need to be resected to avoid misdiagnosis of LMS. We present a case of vaginal LMS which was mistaken to be Bartholin's cyst due to the lack of knowledge of this aggressive tumor and further management.
期刊介绍：
Journal of mid-life health is the official journal of the Indian Menopause society published Quarterly in January, April, July and October. It is peer reviewed, scientific journal of mid-life health and its problems. It includes all aspects of mid-life health, preventive as well as curative. The journal publishes on subjects such as gynecology, neurology, geriatrics, psychiatry, endocrinology, urology, andrology, psychology, healthy ageing, cardiovascular health, bone health, quality of life etc. as relevant of men and women in their midlife. The Journal provides a visible platform to the researchers as well as clinicians to publish their experiences in this area thereby helping in the promotion of mid-life health leading to healthy ageing, growing need due to increasing life expectancy. The Editorial team has maintained high standards and published original research papers, case reports and review articles from the best of the best contributors both national & international, consistently so that now, it has become a great tool in the hands of menopause practitioners.
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
京公网安备 11010802042870号
