A case of primary vaginal leiomyosarcoma metastasized to the lung.

Kim, Min Jung; Kang, Soo Jin; Park, Eun Kuseul; Han, Myoung Seok; Jeong, Jin Sook

Case Report

Korean Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2006;49(10):2210-2213.
Published online October 1, 2006.

A case of primary vaginal leiomyosarcoma metastasized to the lung.

Min Jung Kim, Soo Jin Kang, Eun Kuseul Park, Myoung Seok Han, Jin Sook Jeong

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea. hmsobgy@dau.ac.kr
²Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea.

Abstract

Primary malignant lesions of the vagina represent less than 2% of all gynecologic malignancies. Primary vaginal sarcoma accounts for about 2% of all malignant vaginal lesions and the leiomyosarcoma is the most common vaginal sarcoma found in adult women. The treatment is wide resection of lesion and radiotherapy or chemotherapy, but the progress is not hopeful. We report a case of primary vaginal sarcoma metastasized to the lung. Although the primary lesion was 1.8 cm, but the patient died of metastatic lung cancer.

Key Words: Vaginal leiomyosarcoma