Management of reproductive health in Cowden syndrome complicated by endometrial polyps and breast cancer.

[cowden syndrome]

Cowden syndrome is an autosomal-dominant condition associated with mutations in the tumor suppressor gene PTEN . Gynecologic malignancies are common with a 5 -10 % risk of endometrial cancer and 25 -50 % risk of breast cancer .A 37 -year -old woman with a history of breast cancer , other neoplasms , and multiple skin lesions was diagnosed with Cowden syndrome after a germline PTEN mutation was identified . The endometrium had high glucose uptake on positron emission tomography scan and was irregularly thickened on ultrasonography ; biopsy revealed endometrial polyps and simple hyperplasia . Fifteen months later , hysteroscopy again confirmed numerous benign endometrial polyps .Recurrent , multiple endometrial polyps portend a high risk of endometrial cancer in women with Cowden syndrome . Monitoring for malignancy and consideration of hysterectomy after childbearing is completed is warranted .

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Diseases presenting "skin lesions" symptom

child syndrome

cowden syndrome

cutaneous mastocytosis

cystinuria

dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

epidermolysis bullosa simplex

erdheim-chester disease

erythropoietic protoporphyria

familial mediterranean fever

focal myositis

gm1 gangliosidosis

heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

hirschsprung disease

junctional epidermolysis bullosa

lamellar ichthyosis

liposarcoma

lymphangioleiomyomatosis

malignant atrophic papulosis

oligodontia

omenn syndrome

papillon-lefèvre syndrome

primary effusion lymphoma

proteus syndrome

severe combined immunodeficiency

sneddon syndrome

waldenström macroglobulinemia

werner syndrome

wiskott-aldrich syndrome

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