González VK, Anoceto AE, Alba TO, Rodríguez SIC, Machado HYA, Iglesias YAE, Suárez GJA, Alsina VJ, Martínez PAM, Cabrera AY

Language: Spanish
References: 6
Page: 85-92
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ABSTRACT

A female patient of 47 year olds, of white race, with a history of being deaf-mute and mentally retarded as well as having type 2 diabetes mellitus and essential hypertension for which she is being treated. She went to her health area due to vaginal bleeding of six months of evolution; Performed a physical examination and gynecological ultrasound and were diagnosed with a uterine fibroma, so she was referred to the Gynecological Obstetrical Hospital “Mariana Grajales” to undergo surgery. In the surgical act the removal of the cervix was difficult; Was received in several fragments. The anatomopathological study reported the presence in the cervix of a perivascular epithelial cell tumor, are a family of tumors of mesenchymal origin with similar cytomorphological and immunohistochemical characteristics due to the presence of epithelioid and fusocellular cells with eosinophilic or clear cytoplasm that are closely related to the vasculature and characteristically co-express melanocytic and myoid markers. They are extremely rare tumors that, due to their perivascular disposition, can be located in any part of the body (in the literature they are described in diverse parts of the organism), as well as to affect any age or sex; although it draws attention its greater predisposition towards the female sex.

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