Keiko Mitani

ORCID: 0000-0002-4439-9055 · 3 papers in corpus
case-report 2017
Pneumothorax caused by cystic and nodular lung metastases from a malignant uterine perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa)
Respiratory medicine case reports ·doi:10.1016/j.rmcr.2017.06.011

Perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) are mesenchymal neoplasms with immunoreactivity for both melanocytic and smooth muscle markers. PEComas occur at multiple sites, and malignant PEComas can undergo metastasis, recurrence and agg…

case-report 2017
Protein-losing Enteropathy Caused by Intestinal or Colonic Lymphangiectasia Complicated by Sporadic Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: A Report of Two Cases
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) ·doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.56.7769

This report describes two patients with sporadic lymphangioleiomyomatosis complicated by protein-losing enteropathy (PLE). Imaging studies indicated retroperitoneal lymphangioleiomyomas and abnormalities of the adjacent digestive tract. End…

case-report 2012
Uterine angiosarcoma associated with lymphangioleiomyomatosis in a patient with tuberous sclerosis complex: an autopsy case report with immunohistochemical and genetic analysis
Human pathology ·doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2012.03.020

A 41-year-old woman carrying a germline tuberous sclerosis complex 2 (TSC2) mutation, whose regular medical follow-up for tuberous sclerosis complex and tuberous sclerosis complex-associated lymphangioleiomyomatosis had continued for 2 year…