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Mesothelioma
Treatment
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and Abstracts
Epithelial
mesothelioma with deciduoid
features.
Virchows
Arch 1999 Mar;434(3):263-6
Orosz
Z, Nagy P, Szentirmay Z, Zalatnai A,
Hauser P
Center
of Diagnostic and Experimental Tumour
Pathology, National Institute of Oncology,
Budapest, Hungary. zso@oncol.hu
A
rare case of malignant mesothelioma in a
15-year old girl is described. The patient
presented with secondary amenorrhoea and
clinical symptoms resembling those of an
ovarian cyst. One large and multiple small
peritoneal nodules were found at
laparoscopy. Histologically the tumour was
characterised by an unusual pattern with a
tumour, epithelial mesothelioma with
deciduoid features, was made. The patient
died 11 months after diagnosis.
Post-mortem examination revealed extensive
extraperitoneal spread.
PMID:
10190309, UI: 99204584
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