RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Mesonephric adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix and literature review
JF BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP bcr0120125632
DO 10.1136/bcr.01.2012.5632
VO 2012
A1 Anagnostopoulos, Antonios
A1 Ruthven, Stuart
A1 Kingston, Robert
YR 2012
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2012/bcr.01.2012.5632.abstract
AB Mesonephric adenocarcinoma is a rare type of cervical cancer that derives from mesonephric remnants in the uterine cervix. To the best of our knowledge, this is the 34th case of mesonephric adenocarcinoma in adult women documented in the literature. We present an asymptomatic 64-year-old postmenopausal woman presenting with a suspicious-looking cervix as an incidental finding and diagnosed with a stage IB mesonephric adenocarcinoma of the cervix. This case was managed with radical hysterectomy, bilateral salpingoophorectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy. The rarity of such cases imposes challenges on the management in terms of diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic options.