Publications by authors named "Takashi Natsume"
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- Vulvar intestinal adenocarcinoma is a rare type of cancer, and the best outcome is linked to complete removal of the tumor, though treatments can be unclear due to its rarity.
- A case study describes a 63-year-old woman diagnosed with a primary vulvar tumor that was thought to invade the rectum and spread to lymph nodes.
- The medical team successfully performed a laparoscopic procedure that combined pelvic exenteration with radical vulvectomy and lymph node removal, showing that minimally invasive techniques can be effective when the cancer is operable.
Uterine sarcomas with myomelanocytic differentiation have been reported to be diagnostically challenging. We report a case of uterine leiomyosarcoma with extensive perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa)-like areas and extrauterine metastases. The patient was a 49-year-old gravida 3 para 2 Japanese woman with no relevant medical history.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObstructed hemivagina and ipsilateral renal agenesis (OHVIRA) syndrome is a rare Mullerian duct anomaly characterized by an obstructed hemivagina, ipsilateral renal agenesis, and uterine didelphys. There are only a few published case reports of OHVIRA syndrome, and cases of OHVIRA syndrome associated with cancer have rarely been reported. In fact, there is only one published report of a case with clear cell carcinoma (CCC) of the cervix.
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