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Cervical leiomyomas compromise fewer than 5% of all uterine leiomyomas. Cervical myomas exacerbates surgical difficulties, such as poor operative field, difficult suture repairs, and blood loss. When performing myomectomy for cervical myomas, care must be taken to avoid injuries to neighboring structures in the pelvic cavity.These structures include the bladder in front of the cervix, the rectum behind the cervix, and the uterine arteries and ureters on both sides. Myomectomy for cervical myoma is empirically difficult and frequently problematic. The authors report a case of giant cervical myoma presenting with urinary incontinence.
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Hydronephrosis/etiology , Leiomyoma/diagnosis , Urinary Incontinence/etiology , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/diagnosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Leiomyoma/complications , Leiomyoma/diagnostic imaging , Leiomyoma/pathology , Leiomyoma/surgery , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Middle Aged , Ultrasonography , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/complications , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/pathology , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/surgery , Uterine MyomectomyABSTRACT
Primary malignant melanomas of the uterine cervix are extremely rare tumors. Diagnosis is confirmed by immunohistochemical methods and by exclusion of other primary sites of melanoma. The treatment of this condition is not yet standardized and the overall prognosis of these patients is very poor. The authors report a case of primary malignant melanoma of the uterine cervix.
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Melanoma/pathology , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/pathology , Aged , Female , Humans , Melanoma/diagnosis , Melanoma/therapy , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/diagnosis , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/therapyABSTRACT
Splenic metastasis from ovarian cancer is a rare entity. A few case reports are present in the literature, but to the authors' knowledge, intraparenchymal metastasis to the accessory spleen has never been reported in the literature. The authors report a case of accessory splenic metastasis from ovarian carcinoma.
