Multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma is an uncommon lesion that is most often discovered incidentally
Thursday, September 18th, 2008.
Ugeskrift For Laeger. 2008 Mar 10;170(11):958. [Link]
Christensen H, Waldstrøm M.
Herluf Trolles Vej 233B, DK-5220 Odense SØ. hanne.christensen@dadlnet.dk.
Abstract
Symptoms are unusual. The lesion is benign with a favourable prognosis but local recurrence is reported not to be rare, and in a few cases malignant transformation has been described.
Glossary
- recurrence
- cancer that has come back after treatment. Local recurrence is when the cancer comes back at the same place as the original cancer. Regional recurrence is when the cancer appears in the lymph nodes near the first site. Distant recurrence is when it appears in organs or tissues (such as the lungs, liver, bone marrow, or brain) farther from the original site than the regional lymph nodes. Metastasis means that the disease has recurred at a distant site.
- prognosis
- (prog-no-sis) a prediction of the course of disease; the outlook for the cure of the patient. For example, women with breast cancer that was detected early and who received prompt treatment have a good prognosis.
- lesion
- (lee-zhun) a change in body tissue; sometimes used as another word for tumor.
- benign
- (be-nine) not cancer; not malignant.
