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A case of disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis developing after laparoscope-assisted myomectomy.
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation - 1 Jan 2009
Miyake Takahito, Enomoto Takayuki, Ueda Yutaka, Ikuma Kenichiro, Morii Eiichi, Matsuzaki Shinya, Murata Yuji
Abstract excerpt
A 36-year-old nulliparous woman developed multiple extra-uterine fibroids in the pelvic cavity years after laparoscopic myomectomy. Molecular genetic analysis by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSPCR) of the human X-linked androgen receptor gene and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) analysis at 5 microsatellite loci was performed on the tumors. All tumors showed an identical non-random X-chromosome...
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