Intravascular Involvement in Adenomyosis: An Endometriosis Dissemination Pathway?

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J Pérez Buendía Maria del Pilar Marín Sánchez A.R. Guijarro Campillo J.R. Pérez Vidal I. Ñiguez Sevilla E. Iborra Lacal M.C. Carrascosa Romero A. Nieto Díaz

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Maria del Pilar Marín Sánchez
Servicio de Obstetricia y Ginecología, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain

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Intravascular adenomyosis is an entity described for years in the literature, but its clinical-pathologic correlation hasn´t been studied in detail. Objective: To study the prevalence of adenomyosis including intravascular involvement, as well as available literature review about this pathology. Material and Methods: A retrospective observational study has been conducted in our hospital analysing hysterectomies specimens from January to December 2020. Results: 447 hysterectomies specimens have been analysed, 68 with adenomyosis and just one with intravascular involvement. Conclusion: Intravascular involvement adenomyosis is a rare entity but with potential etiopathogenic consequence.

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Research Article

Publication history

Received: Tue 14, Feb 2023
Accepted: Tue 28, Feb 2023
Published: Fri 07, Apr 2023

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© 2023 Maria del Pilar Marín Sánchez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.IJSCR.2023.01.03