PMID- 20139058
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101007
LR  - 20191111
IS  - 1658-3876 (Print)
IS  - 2589-0646 (Linking)
VI  - 2
IP  - 3
DP  - 2009
TI  - Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa) of the uterus with aggressive 
      behavior at presentation.
PG  - 426-30
AB  - Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa) is a rare mesenchymal tumor composed 
      of histologically and immunohistochemically distinctive perivascular epithelioid 
      cells (PECs). Both benign and malignant tumors have been identified, but the 
      criteria for diagnosis of malignancy have not been fully established due to the 
      rarity of the tumor. We report on a case of uterine PEComa in a 33-year old woman 
      with lymph node metastasis at presentation. The tumor had the characteristic 
      histologic features of PEComa with cytologic atypia, mitotic activity of 2/10 
      high power field (HPF), and necrosis; it exhibited immunopositivity for HMB-45, 
      calponin and desmin and was negative for melan-A. The patient received 
      neoadjuvant chemotherapy, debulking surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy. No 
      evidence of recurrence or metastasis was apparent 8 months after surgery.
FAU - Liu, Jing-Lan
AU  - Liu JL
AD  - Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Province of China.
FAU - Lin, Yueh-Min
AU  - Lin YM
FAU - Lin, Ming-Chieh
AU  - Lin MC
FAU - Yeh, Kun-Tu
AU  - Yeh KT
FAU - Hsu, Jui-Chang
AU  - Hsu JC
FAU - Chin, Chih-Jung
AU  - Chin CJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Saudi Arabia
TA  - Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther
JT  - Hematology/oncology and stem cell therapy
JID - 101468532
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Lymphatic Metastasis
MH  - Neoadjuvant Therapy
MH  - Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasms/drug therapy/*pathology/surgery
MH  - Treatment Outcome
MH  - Uterine Neoplasms/drug therapy/*pathology/surgery
EDAT- 2010/02/09 06:00
MHDA- 2010/10/12 06:00
CRDT- 2010/02/09 06:00
PHST- 2010/02/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/02/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/10/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - 09-426 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s1658-3876(09)50013-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther. 2009;2(3):426-30. doi: 
      10.1016/s1658-3876(09)50013-1.