Leiomyosarcoma


Kaposi's sarcoma

A systemic disease which can present with cutaneous lesions with or without internal involvement. Tumors are caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8), also known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV).


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PMID (PMCID)
23771380
FEMALE Adult
Intranodal palisaded myofibroblastoma: a case report and an update on etiopathogenesis and differential diagnosis.
Sarma NH, Arora KS, Varalaxmi KP.
J Cancer Res Ther. 2013;9(2):295-8.
Though benign, morphologically it can be confused with malignant tumors like Kaposi's sarcoma, melanoma, and leiomyosarcoma.
21391166
MALE
[Peritoneal splenosis 26 years after traumatic splenic rupture--rare differential diagnosis of a subepithelial gastric mass--case report and review of the literature].
Garlipp B, Zeh M, Scheidbach H, Kuester D, Lippert H.
Z Gastroenterol. 2011;49(3):344-9.
Differential diagnoses of subepithelial gastric masses include benign (leiomyoma, lipoma, haemangioma, lymphangioma, neurogenic tumours, glomus tumour) and malignant (leiomyosarcoma, gastric Kaposi's sarcoma, metastases) neoplastic lesions, gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) and lesions of non-neoplastic origin (heterotopic pancreatic tissue, intramural pseudocysts, intramural haematoma).
2712680
FEMALE Middle Aged
Solitary spindle cell tumor with myoid differentiation of the lymph node.
Lee JY, Abell E, Shevechik GJ.
Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1989;113(5):547-50.
The differential diagnosis includes neurilemoma, leiomyoma, and, more importantly, leiomyosarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, and other metastatic spindle cell tumors.
3631453
MIXED_SAMPLE Adult
Verruga peruana mimicking malignant neoplasms.
Arias-Stella J, Lieberman PH, Garcia-Caceres U, Erlandson RA, Kruger H, Arias-Stella J Jr.
Am J Dermatopathol. 1987;9(4):279-91.
The other pattern of the florid lesion is characterized by a predominantly spindle cell arrangement (case 3) and in it the following diagnoses were made: Kaposi's sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, melanoma and leiomyosarcoma.