Myoma sarcomatodes renum

Rufi Ephesii De Renum et Vesicae Morbis

Reviewed by Vivian Nutton, M.A., Ph.D., Wellcome Institute for the History ofMedicine, 183 Euston Road, London NW) 2BP. The achievements of Rufus of Ephesus, fl. A.D. 110, one of the few physicians whom Galen respected, have almost entirely vanished under the volinous learning of his successor. Many of his writings are lost, fragments of others can be recovered from later encyclopaedists in Gre...

Myoma arising in a Cervical Stump

After having been almost abandoned, supracervical hysterectomy has been recently re-advocated, especially after the development of laparoscopy, because it is stated to have less morbidity and minor intra-operative complications. However, long term outcomes report high incidences of late complications Case Report A 49 year-old patient with a history of previous laparotomic myomectomy and one cae...

Successful acupuncture treatment of uterine myoma.

Our case report as the second one in the medical literature demonstrated successful outcome of acupuncture treatment of uterine myoma in terms of tumor size reduction and absence of hypermenorrhea and anemia with successful perinatal outcome with two healthy newborns after previous late miscarriage. Accordingly, acupuncture treatment can be used as an inexpensive, efficient and simple therapeut...

I-39: Myoma in Infertility

Abdominal wall parasitic myoma following electromechanical morcellation.

Parasitic myomas are those that have become partially or almost completely separated from the uterus and receive their main blood-supply from another source. The etiopathogenesis of parasitic myomas may be separation of peduncululated subserosal myomas that have outgrown their blood supply. More commonly, iatrogenic parasitic myomas may be caused by seeding of myoma fragments following morcella...