Leiomyosarcoma of the uterus with intravascular tumor extension and pulmonary tumor embolism

Douglas K. McDonald; Sanjeeva P. Kalva; Chieh Min Fan; Aleksandr Vasilyev

doi:10.1007/s00270-006-0118-4

Leiomyosarcoma of the uterus with intravascular tumor extension and pulmonary tumor embolism

Douglas K. McDonald, Sanjeeva P. Kalva, Chieh Min Fan, Aleksandr Vasilyev

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Abstract

We report the case of a 48-year-old woman presenting with recurrent uterine leiomyosarcoma (LMS) associated with right iliac vein and inferior vena cava (IVC) invasion and left lower lobe pulmonary tumor embolus. Because the prognosis and treatment differ from that of thrombotic pulmonary emboli, the differentiating imaging characteristics of intravascular tumor embolism are reviewed. To our knowledge, only two other cases of intravenous uterine leiomyosarcomatosis have been described in the existing literature, and this is the first reported case of the entity with associated intravascular tumor embolism.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	140-142
Number of pages	3
Journal	Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-006-0118-4
State	Published - Feb 2007

Keywords

Intravascular tumor embolism
Intravenous leiomyomatosis
Intravenous leiomyosarcomatosis
Leiomyosarcoma

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Leiomyosarcoma of the uterus with intravascular tumor extension and pulmonary tumor embolism

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