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Case Reports
. 2021 Oct 25;35(1):111-112.
doi: 10.1080/08998280.2021.1988833. eCollection 2022.

Aggressive angiomyxoma of the female urethra

Mohamed Elsaqa  1 , Mahmoud Elsabbagh  1 , Hend A Sharafeldin  2 , Nahed M Baddour  2
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Case Reports

Aggressive angiomyxoma of the female urethra

Mohamed Elsaqa et al. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). .

Abstract

Aggressive angiomyxoma is a rare locally invasive mesenchymal neoplasm of unknown pathogenesis arising predominantly in pelvic and perineal tissues of adult women. Surgical excision is the classical management but is associated with the risk of recurrence, especially with incomplete excision. There is a proposed role for adjuvant hormonal therapy. We report a very rare case of urethral aggressive angiomyxoma, managed by surgical excision, in a 40-year-old woman who presented with severe hematuria with clot retention.

Keywords: Angiomyxoma; hematuria; vulvar mass.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
(a, b) The relation of the mass to the urethra with urethral catheter. (c) Cystoscopy showing suspicious mucosa at the bladder neck. (d) Postoperative picture after the mass was excised. (e–g) Histopathology showing (e) a hypocellular lesion with bland-looking neoplastic spindle to stellate cells with small-sized blood vessels in a myxoid background, with neoplastic cells showing immunoreactivity for (f) desmin and (g) estrogen receptor.
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