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A case of a 68-year-old woman who presented with a rapidly enlarging painful right thigh mass is presented. She had a known diagnosis of uterine leiomyosarcoma following a hysterectomy for dysfunctional uterine bleeding. She subsequently developed a single hepatic metastatic deposit that responded well to radiofrequency ablation. Whole-body MRI and MRA revealed a vascular mass in the sartorius muscle and a smaller adjacent mass in the gracilis muscle, proven to represent metastatic leiomyosarcoma of uterine origin. To our knowledge, metastatic uterine leiomyosarcoma to the skeletal muscle has not been described previously in the English medical literature.
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O’Brien, J.M., Brennan, D.D., Taylor, D.H. et al. Skeletal muscle metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma. Skeletal Radiol 33, 655–659 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-004-0787-5
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