Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3961593 | Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology | 2016 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
We report a case of a primary vaginal adenosarcoma with sarcomatous overgrowth in a postmenopausal 58-year-old woman with recurrent endometriosis. In the past 5Â years she underwent several biopsies of a polypoid lesion on the vaginal cuff, and the last histologic examination of the biopsy showed an adenosarcoma with “sarcomatous overgrowth” in a background of endometriosis. There was no evidence of distant metastatic disease on the diagnostic workup, and we performed a laparoscopy to remove the pelvic mass. We reviewed the literature on the electronic databases Medline, Embase, and Science Direct on articles published in English from 1990 to 2015. We identified 5 articles in which the surgical treatment was performed via a laparotomic approach. The present case is the first in the literature to report feasibility of laparoscopic treatment for this kind of pathology with a detailed description of the surgical technique.
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Authors
Giovanni MD, Mauro MD, Anna MD, Francesco MD, Anna MD, Marcello MD,