Okauchi S, Watanabe H, Tamura T, Takayashiki N, Iguchi K, Satoh H, Sato T, Sakata A, Noguchi M. Pulmonary metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma in a patient with limited cutaneous systemic scleroderma.
J Gen Fam Med 2017;
18:418-421. [PMID:
29264076 PMCID:
PMC5729316 DOI:
10.1002/jgf2.84]
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Abstract
A 51-year-old woman, who was diagnosed as having limited cutaneous systemic scleroderma, presented with pulmonary nodules incidentally detected in a chest radiograph. The patient had surgical biopsy of the nodules. In microscopic examination of the specimens, proliferation, mitotic activity, and cellular anaplasia of spindle cells were present. Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography showed tumors in lungs as well as uterus. The diagnosis of the tumor was pulmonary metastases from uterine leiomyosarcoma. We should be on alert the possibility of developing malignant disease in patient with this autoimmune disease. If it is certain that there is metastasis, we believe that therapy for the primary lesion will be preceded by biopsy and surgery for the metastatic lesions.
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