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Following total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and excision of the retroperitoneal lesion, histopathology and immunohistochemistry (IHC) confirmed a spindle cell tumour probably leiomyoma. Although the lung lesions were initially suggestive of LAM, the IHC study of the retroperitoneal lesion showed negative HMB-45 staining, and the genetic study also ruled out tuberous sclerosis complex mutations. Hence, we finally came to the diagnosis of BML. 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