PMID: 16503026Mar 1, 2006Paper

Three patients with differing manifestations of uterine sarcoma

Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
J N G LamA A W Peters

Abstract

A 70-year-old woman with postmenopausal blood loss proved to have a stage-IV high-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma; 9 months after resection the patient was well. In a 53-year-old woman with symptoms of neurological deficit and weight loss accompanying an increase in abdominal girth and postmenopausal vaginal blood loss a high-grade leiomyosarcoma at stage IV was diagnosed. Despite treatment the neurological symptoms worsened and the patient died within 2 months of diagnosis. Another woman, aged 53, with abdominal pain but no blood loss proved to have a high-grade leiomyosarcoma at stage 1. Nine months after resection and radiotherapy the patient was well. The incidence of carcinomas of the uterus in The Netherlands is on average 113 women per year. They manifest themselves in different ways which can sometimes be misleading. The most common symptom is vaginal bleeding, in combination with abdominal pain or a pelvic mass. The only curative therapy is surgical excision. The 5-year survival rate is 50% in tumours confined to the uterus as opposed to 20% in those that spread further.

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