A difficult to diagnose case of low‑grade endometrial stromal sarcoma with smooth muscle differentiation treated with laparoscopic surgery: A case report
Abstract:Low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (LGESS) is a rare uterine tumor, accounting for <1% of all uterine cancer cases. LGESS has several variations and the frequency of tumors exhibiting smooth muscle differentiation is 10-30% of LGESS cases, making such cases even rarer. The present report described the case of a patient with LGESS with smooth muscle differentiation, who was diagnosed as having uterine leiomyoma by preoperative needle biopsy and then underwent laparoscopic surgery. The patient was a 41-year-o… Show more
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