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Case Reports
. 2019 May 16:29:7-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.gore.2019.05.006. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Endometrial carcinoma in a 14-year-old: A case report

Hajime Uda  1 , Miho Kitai  1 , Ai Kogiku  2 , Anna Kobayashi  3 , Toshiko Sakuma  3 , Shoji Nagao  1 , Satoshi Yamaguchi  1
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Endometrial carcinoma in a 14-year-old: A case report

Hajime Uda et al. Gynecol Oncol Rep. .

Abstract

•We present a case of endometrial carcinoma (EC) in a 14-year-old girl with no risk factors for EC.•The patient received MPA therapy and endometrial curettage.•At 47 weeks after her last MPA treatment, she has had no recurrence.•EC should be considered in diagnosing juveniles with sustained abnormal uterine bleeding, even those without risk factors.

Keywords: Endometrial carcinoma; Fertility-sparing; Juvenile; MPA.

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Pelvic MRI(T2-weighted sagittal image) shows that myometrial invasion did not occur in the uterus.
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Histological findings of endometrial specimen. (a) Tumor cells show atypical hyperplasia. (hematoxylin and eosin, ×40). (b) Cellular and structural atypia in an endometrioid adenocarcinoma, grade 1 (hematoxylin and eosin, ×200).
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Hysteroscopy found no obvious proliferative lesion in the patient's uterus.
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