[Post-menopausal endometriosis developed during tamoxifen treatment]

Le Bouëdec G, G. Le Bouëdec, P. Kauffmann, Kauffmann P, Pingeon JM, J. M. Pingeon, de Latour M, M de Latour, P. Lemesle, Lemesle P, J Dauplat, Dauplat J
Revue francaise de gynecologie et d'obstetrique · 1991 · vol. 86(5) , pp. 407–10 · PMID:1871504 · W2236644252
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A 69-year-old post-menopausal woman developed endometriosis and endometrioma during seven years of tamoxifen treatment for breast cancer.

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Abstract

The authors report a case of endometriosis (adenomyosis + endometrioma) which occurred in a female patient aged 69 years, who had undergone the menopause 15 years previously and who had been taking Tamoxifen for 7 years as an adjuvant treatment for cancer of the breast. Tamoxifen, a non-steroidal anti-estrogen derived from diethylstilbestrol, has a variable antagonist/agonist so that estrogenic stimulation of the female genital tract may occur, particularly of the endometrial mucosa. The reactivation of the endometriosic foci which had become quiescent under the impact of the natural menopause, which, by iatrogenic analogy is included in the series of paradoxical uterine effects of tamoxifen.

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endometriosisadenomyosisendometrioma

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Endometriosis Ovarian Neoplasms Tamoxifen Aged Aged Endometriosis Endometriosis Female Female Humans Humans Menopause Menopause Ovarian Neoplasms Ovarian Neoplasms Tamoxifen Tamoxifen

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