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BACKGROUND Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by endometrial tissue that grows outside the uterus. Deep endometriosis surgery is associated with considerable rates of complications, although such rates are lower in surgical procedures carried out by expert surgical teams. This report details a case of a rare but life-threatening complication in the postoperative period following 72 h of endometriosis surgery: a giant subcapsular hepatic hematoma, which was successfully managed conservatively. CASE REPORT Here we describe the case of a 39-year-old woman with deep endometriosis with ureteral, ovarian, and intestinal involvement requiring multidisciplinary surgery. She presented with severe anemia, respiratory distress, and oliguria 72 h postoperatively. A 3-phase computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a giant intrahepatic subcapsular hematoma (180×165×50 mm) lateral to the right hepatic lobe, which was managed conservatively. The patient evolved favorably and the hematoma was reduced (77×16 mm) in a follow-up CT scan performed 5 months later. CONCLUSIONS Giant liver hematoma is a rare, life-threatening complication. The current experience relating to its management remains largely limited owing to the rarity of the condition and paucity of published cases. Actually, we found no articles on hepatic hematoma in the context of endometriosis surgery. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential to reduce the patient's risk of death. Imaging diagnosis plays an essential role.

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It is not standardised what is the endometrial thickness that discriminates between normal and potentially malignant. The objective of this study was to determine the endometrial thickness cut-off point from which the risk of endometrial cancer (EC) increases in asymptomatic postmenopausal women; and to evaluate the risk factors linked to malignant endometrial pathology as well as other associated ultrasound findings.This was a retrospective observational study that included hysteroscopies performed at the Hospital Materno-Infantil on 267 asymptomatic menopausal women with an increase in endometrial thickness (AET) >5 mm, from 2015 to 2019. The results shows that the prevalence of malignant pathology in asymptomatic postmenopausal women with a casual finding of endometrial thickening was 3.7%. This percentage was 16.3% when the cut-off point of AET was established at 10 mm. There was a significant association for the diagnosis of malignant pathology with this cut-off point.There is a significant association between the 10 mm endometrial thickness cut-off point from which the risk of EC increases in asymptomatic postmenopausal women.Impact statementWhat is already known on this subject? Several studies have established the cut-off point for asymptomatic endometrial thickening (AET) for atypical endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer at 10 mm. Although no cut-off point has optimal accuracy for the diagnosis of malignant endometrial pathology, it has been found that with a cut-off value of AET >10 mm no cases are missed. Likewise, a cut-off point of AET > 11 mm may provide a balance between cancer detection and histopathological workup extension.What do the results of this study add? A significant association was found at the cut-off point of AET > 10 mm, which suggests that screening postmenopausal women at this thickness is acceptable and unlikely to miss cases of endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer.What are the implications of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? After analysing our results we can conclude, like other published studies, that by establishing a cut-off point of 10 mm we obtain a good discrimination between benign and malignant pathology, which would allow us to diagnose 100% of malignant pathology. Above this cut-off point, the risk of endometrial cancer increases, and it would therefore be advisable to extend the study. A multicentre study is needed to confirm the cut-off point at which the risk of endometrial cancer increases in postmenopausal women with asymptomatic endometrial thickening.

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Twenty-five percent of cases of endometrial cancer appear in women with unfulfilled reproductive desires. An adequate selection of patients and a close hysteroscopic follow-up to monitor the endometrial response to the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) may be a valid and safe option for these patients. This is a case series and review of the literature study. We included eight patients diagnosed of complex endometrial hyperplasia with atypia (CEHA) or stage 1AG1 well-differentiated endometrial cancer without myometrial invasion who desired to get pregnant and opted for a conservative treatment. Follow-up was performed with hysteroscopy and directed biopsy at 3, 6 and 12 months. Of the 854 cases of complex endometrial hyperplasia with atypia (CEHA)/endometrial cancer were diagnosed, 2.3% were candidates for conservative management. We obtained a favourable regression of 71.2% at 6 months and 57% at one year with hormonal treatment. Conservative treatment in complex endometrial hyperplasia with atypia (CEHA)/low-grade endometrial cancer in reproductive age patients with a strong desire for pregnancy is feasible.

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Los tumores uterinos que recuerdan a las células de los cordones sexuales son una entidad clínica rara, clasifica-dos en tipo I (tumores del estroma endometrial con elementos de las células que recuerdan a las células de los cordones sexuales del ovario) y tipo II (tumores uterinos que recuerdan a las células de los cordones sexuales del ovario). Lo más frecuente es el hallazgo casual en una pieza quirúrgica y en el contexto de una metrorragia perimenopáusica. Aunque los tumores uterinos que recuerdan a las células de los cordones sexuales son tumores de baja malignidad y de escasa recurrencia, no hay consenso sobre la radicalidad del tratamiento. Se presenta un caso clínico de un hallazgo anatomopatológico tras una histerectomía compatible con tumores uterinos que recuerdan a las células de los cordones sexuales en el contexto de un útero miomatoso en una paciente de 46 años con historia de hipermenorreas y dolor pélvico

Uterine tumors resembling the sex cord cells are a rare clinical entity, classified as type I (Endometrial stromal tumor with sex-cord-like elements [ESTSCLE]) and type II (Uterine tumors resembling ovarian sex cord tumors [UTROSCT]). Most often it found incidentally in a surgical specimen and in the context of a perimenopausal ute-rine bleeding. Although uterine tumors resembling the sex cord cells are generally low-grade tumors and low recurrence, there is no clinical consensus on how much should be radical treatment. A case of a pathological finding occurs after abdominal hysterectomy compatible with uterine tumors resembling the sex cord cells in the context of a fibroid uterus in a 46-year woman with a history of hipermenorreas and pelvic pain

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La esplenosis, o autotrasplante de tejido esplénico, es una entidad clínica de la que se han documentado aproximadamente 100 casos. Esta entidad se define como el autotrasplante de tejido esplénico después de un traumatismo o cirugía. Presentamos un caso clínico de una mujer con dolor abdominal con alta sospecha de endometriosis en la que, tras la intervención, se detecta una esplenosis

Splenosis is the heterotopic autotransplantation of splenic tissue usually following traumatic rupture of spleen. Approximately 100 cases have been reported. We report the case of a woman who presented with a pelvic mass, which was preoperatively mistaken for endometriosis. Splenosis was diagnosed after surgery

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