TY - JOUR
T1 - Uterine carcinosarcoma
T2 - A case report and literature review
AU - Kord, Ali
AU - Rabiee, Behnam
AU - Younes, Ismail Elbaz
AU - Xie, Karen L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 Ali Kord et al.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Uterine carcinosarcomas are rare and extremely aggressive undifferentiated carcinomas which include both carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements. A 52-year-old female presented with heavy irregular menstrual bleeding for several years and new right elbow pain and swelling. Ultrasound and computed tomography showed a large uterine mass with regional and distant metastatic lymphadenopathy and suspicious findings of osseous metastasis to the right elbow. A biopsy confirmed uterine carcinosarcoma, and the patient underwent chemotherapy and then surgical resection of the uterine mass with palliative radiotherapy of the right elbow. The postoperative imaging showed new metastasis, and the patient was scheduled to start on immunotherapy. Considering the highly invasive nature of uterine carcinosarcomas, timely detection of this cancer using characteristic imaging and pathology findings is of extreme importance to improve the patient’s survival.
AB - Uterine carcinosarcomas are rare and extremely aggressive undifferentiated carcinomas which include both carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements. A 52-year-old female presented with heavy irregular menstrual bleeding for several years and new right elbow pain and swelling. Ultrasound and computed tomography showed a large uterine mass with regional and distant metastatic lymphadenopathy and suspicious findings of osseous metastasis to the right elbow. A biopsy confirmed uterine carcinosarcoma, and the patient underwent chemotherapy and then surgical resection of the uterine mass with palliative radiotherapy of the right elbow. The postoperative imaging showed new metastasis, and the patient was scheduled to start on immunotherapy. Considering the highly invasive nature of uterine carcinosarcomas, timely detection of this cancer using characteristic imaging and pathology findings is of extreme importance to improve the patient’s survival.
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U2 - 10.1155/2020/8816348
DO - 10.1155/2020/8816348
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099861633
SN - 2090-6684
VL - 2020
JO - Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology
JF - Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology
M1 - 8816348
ER -