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Alveolar soft-part sarcoma of the female genital tract

Case report with ultrastructural findings

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An alveolar soft-part sarcoma of the uterine cervix observed in a 26-year-old women is described. One year after extended radical hysterectomy there was no evidence of tumor recurrence. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second reported case of alveolar soft-part sarcoma arising in the female genital tract and the first description of this tumor in the uterine cervix.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Hadassah University Hospital and The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

    Juri Kopolovic & Zvi Ne'eman

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah University Hospital and the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

    David B. Weiss

  3. Department of Pathology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hadassah University Hospital and the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

    Leah Dolberg

  4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah University Hospital and the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

    Amnon Brezinsky & Shaul O. Anteby

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Kopolovic, J., Weiss, D.B., Dolberg, L. et al. Alveolar soft-part sarcoma of the female genital tract. Arch. Gynecol. 240, 125–129 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02134046

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