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SUBMITTER: Uehara K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3216880 | biostudies-other | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Diagnostic pathology 20111028
We present a 69-year-old woman with a chief complaint of postmenopausal bleeding. She was diagnosed as having an endometrioid adenocarcinoma by biopsy, and underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy. At the time of surgery, granulation tissue-like nodules were found on the peritoneal serosa of the uterus. In the intraoperative cytology of peritoneal washing, atypical cells were noted. The intraoperative frozen section of the peritoneal nodule revealed granulation tissue with proliferating mesothel ...[more]