Rare case of uterine PEC-oma (perivascular epithelioid cell tumor) recurrence. Case report and literature review.

نویسندگان

  • Tadeusz Issat
  • Tomasz Maciejewski
  • Jarosław Beta
  • J Artur Jakimiuk
چکیده

Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEC-oma) is a rare mesenchymal neoplasm. Literature reports more than 100 cases of PEC-oma, a third of which is of uterine or uterine retroperitoneum origin. The case of a 59-year-old woman presented here is, to the best of our knowledge, the first described fast uterine PEC-oma recurrence of the tumor of the gastrointestinal tract origin. In this text the authors also present literature review concerning this rare female tumor

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Ginekologia polska

دوره 83 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012