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<p>Leiomyosarcoma is a malignant tumor developed from the smooth muscle. It can arise in different sites especiallyin gastrointestinal tract (stomach, small bowel and colon), genitourinary tract (uterus, bladder and kidney) and the retroperitoneum (inferior vena cava) (1,2). It’s localization in the bladder is rare, representing 0.5% of all urinary bladder malignancies. There are over 210 cases reported in literature(3).Ten to 30% of the patients willpossibly develop metastases and the most common sites are lungs, liver and bone(4,5). There is no concensus on a standard treatment due to its very low incidence.</p>
<p>We report here a rare case of a surgical management of large liver metastases from urinary bladder leiomyosarcoma.</p>
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Leiomyosarcoma is a malignant tumor developed from the smooth muscle. It can arise in different sites especiallyin gastrointestinal tract (stomach, small bowel and colon), genitourinary tract (uterus, bladder and kidney) and the retroperitoneum (inferior vena cava) (1,2). It’s localization in the bladder is rare, representing 0.5% of all urinary bladder malignancies. There are over 210 cases reported in literature(3).Ten to 30% of the patients willpossibly develop metastases and the most common sites are lungs, liver and bone(4,5). There is no concensus on a standard treatment due to its very low incidence.
We report here a rare case of a surgical management of large liver metastases from urinary bladder leiomyosarcoma.

Surgical Management of Large Liver Metastases from Urinary Bladder Leiomyosarcoma

ARS Medica Tomitana

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Leiomyosarcoma is a malignant tumor developed from the smooth muscle. It can arise in different sites especiallyin gastrointestinal tract (stomach, small bowel...

Surgical Management of Large Liver Metastases from Urinary Bladder Leiomyosarcoma

Data publikacji: 17 sie 2022

Zakres stron: 16 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/arsm-2021-0004

Słowa kluczowe
leiomyosarcoma, urinary bladder, liver metastases

© 2021 Mohamed Hajri et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Surgical Management of Large Liver Metastases from Urinary Bladder Leiomyosarcoma

Data publikacji: 17 sie 2022

Zakres stron: 16 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/arsm-2021-0004

Słowa kluczoweleiomyosarcoma, urinary bladder, liver metastases

© 2021 Mohamed Hajri et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
leiomyosarcoma, urinary bladder, liver metastases