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Specialties Ob/Gyn

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I don't work in OB, but in interventioal radiology and we had a patient recently who had uterine cancer as an infant and a hysterectomy at 9 months. Is this something that others have seen or is this rare?

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

I haven't seen that....but I did see a baby who had to have an oophorectomy r/t a teratoma. Hyster at 9mo...that's pretty sad.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

My first thought was how bad I felt that she would never have children, then I wondered what a entire lifetime on HRT would do to a body.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

That is just so sad. I have never seen this, myself. But then, I am mostly dealing with women who are in labor, and clearly did not have this problem. Also, we are only a level-2 nursery, so infants with real problems go to a NICU elsewhere. And we don't hear much about them after that.

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.

I've never seen or read of uterine cancer at such a young age, and wonder how it presented and was diagnosed.

I wonder if it may have been related to a teratoma. Interesting article:

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2248.htm

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

If she had her ovaries intact then no need for HRT.

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