Endometriosis Mimicking Soft-Tissue Neoplasms: A Potential Diagnostic Pitfall
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Endometriosis Mimicking Soft-Tissue Neoplasms: A Potential Diagnostic Pitfall.
Endometriosis is a common gynecological disorder most often involving the pelvic region. Although it is rare, endometriosis occurring outside of the peritoneal cavity most commonly occurs within scars of the abdominal wall, but it has been reported in the lungs, pleura, kidneys, brain, and the extremities. Herein, we present 2 cases of endometriosis, including 1 case of endometriosis of the wri...
متن کاملSoft-tissue textiloma: a potential diagnostic pitfall.
Klippel–Trenaunay syndrome has 3 essential features: cutaneous hemangiomas, varicose veins and hypertophy of the involved limbs in length or girth, or both. Both bones and soft tissue are usually affected by the hypertrophy. The arteriovenous malformation effects are polysystemic. Patients with this syndrome are at risk of thromboembolic disease. Baskerville’s report shows that 7 (14%) of 49 pa...
متن کاملCase of pseudoaneurysm mimicking a soft tissue sarcoma: a diagnostic pitfall.
Pseudoaneurysms represent a pulsating encapsulated hematoma in communication with the lumen of a ruptured vessel. We present a 33-year-old male with a pseudoaneurysm of the profunda femoris artery. At presentation and on further evaluation, he was diagnosed with a possible soft tissue sarcoma of the distal thigh. Catastrophic haemorrhage occurred at the time of a planned, elective open biopsy. ...
متن کاملMyoepithelioma of soft tissue and diagnostic pitfall in cytology
1. Bhanvadia VM, Agarwal NM, Chavda AD, Bhetariya BV. Myoepithelioma of soft tissue in the gluteal region: Diagnostic pitfall in cytology. Cytojournal 2017;14:14. 2. Wiwanitkit V. Types and frequency of preanalytical mistakes in the first Thai ISO 9002:1994 certified clinical laboratory, a 6 – month monitoring. BMC Clin Pathol 2001;1:5. Dear Editor, The report on “Myoepithelioma of soft tissue ...
متن کاملColonic Endometriosis Mimicking Colon Cancer on a Virtual Colonoscopy Study: A Potential Pitfall in Diagnosis
Colonic endometriosis has been reported in the literature to mimic colon cancer. Patients can present with symptoms almost identical to colon cancer. We present an exemplary case of a woman who was found to have a mass on conventional colonoscopy. Virtual colonoscopy was instrumental in characterizing the obstructive sigmoid mass. A biopsy of the mass revealed sigmoid endometriosis.
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Control
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1073-2748,1073-2748
DOI: 10.1177/107327481702400114