Kord Ali, Rabiee Behnam, Elbaz Younes Ismail, Xie Karen L
Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Department of Radiology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Case Rep Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Aug 20;2020:8816348. doi: 10.1155/2020/8816348. eCollection 2020.
Uterine carcinosarcomas are rare and extremely aggressive undifferentiated carcinomas which include both carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements. A 52-year-old female presented with heavy irregular menstrual bleeding for several years and new right elbow pain and swelling. Ultrasound and computed tomography showed a large uterine mass with regional and distant metastatic lymphadenopathy and suspicious findings of osseous metastasis to the right elbow. A biopsy confirmed uterine carcinosarcoma, and the patient underwent chemotherapy and then surgical resection of the uterine mass with palliative radiotherapy of the right elbow. The postoperative imaging showed new metastasis, and the patient was scheduled to start on immunotherapy. Considering the highly invasive nature of uterine carcinosarcomas, timely detection of this cancer using characteristic imaging and pathology findings is of extreme importance to improve the patient's survival.
子宫癌肉瘤是罕见且极具侵袭性的未分化癌,其中包含癌性和肉瘤性成分。一名52岁女性因数年的大量不规则月经出血以及新出现的右肘疼痛和肿胀前来就诊。超声和计算机断层扫描显示子宫有一个大肿块,伴有局部和远处转移性淋巴结病,且怀疑有右侧肘部骨转移。活检证实为子宫癌肉瘤,该患者接受了化疗,随后对子宫肿块进行了手术切除,并对右肘进行了姑息性放疗。术后影像学检查显示有新的转移灶,该患者计划开始接受免疫治疗。鉴于子宫癌肉瘤具有高度侵袭性,利用特征性影像学和病理学检查结果及时发现这种癌症对于提高患者生存率极为重要。