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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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Leiomyosarcoma uteri in a white woman
AG Adesiyun1, M. O. A. Samaila2
1 Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
2 Department of Pathology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Correspondence Address:
A G Adesiyun
P.O. Box 204, Kaduna, Kaduna State
Nigeria
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DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.62623
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Sacroma of the corpus uteri should be considered as a differential diagnosis in postmenopausal women presenting with severe abdominal pain, thought to be due to degenerative changes of leiomyoma uteri. We present a rare case of leiomyosacroma in a postmenopausal White woman. Diagnosis was missed preoperatively for degenerating uterine fibroid. |
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