What treatment do you recommend for painful large plaques of leiomyomas on the back of a patient with HLRCC syndrome when lesions are too large for excision?
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What treatment do you recommend for painful large plaques of leiomyomas on the back of a patient with HLRCC syndrome when lesions are too large for excision?
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Dermatology · National Institutes of Health
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Depending on the extent of discomfort, surgery may be required for debilitating leiomyoma-associated pain. In some cases, a larger exophytic nodule(s) can be isolated as the lesion(s) that are most painful and selectively excised, but broad segmental involvement is common in HLRCC, particularly on t...
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