Benassayag, C., M. J. Leroy, V. Rigourd, B. Robert, J. C. Honoré, T. M. Mignot, M. C. Vacher-Lavenu, C. Chapron, and F. Ferré. Estrogen receptors (ERa/ERb) in normal and pathological growth of the human myometrium: pregnancy and leiomyoma. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E1112–E1118, 1999.—The distributions of the mRNAs for estrogen receptors (ERa and ERb) and their binding propert...

Objects: To investigate the pathogenesis of amyloid presented in uterine leiomyoma. Methods: 36 uterine leiomyoma patients were recruited and divided into two groups according to Congo red staining results. 6 cases are Congo red staining-positive, and 30 cases Congo red staining-negative which represented amyloid positive and amyloid negative respectively. All patients’ serum total protein (TP)...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the roles of insulin-like growth factor II (IGF2), myeloperoxidase (MPO), E-cadherin (CDH1), urokinase and xeroderma pigmentosum group A and D (XPA, XPD) polymorphisms upon leiomyoma susceptibility. STUDY DESIGN Women were divided into: group 1, leiomyoma (n=158); group 2, non-leiomyoma (n=156). Polymorphisms (IGF2 exon 9*A/G, MPO-463*A/G, CDH1-Pml I, urokinase-ApaL,...

OBJECTIVES To examine the clinicopathologic profile of leiomyoma in surgically removed uteri in a rural tertiary care hospital of north India between January 2008 and August 2012. METHODS Fibroids are the most common benign tumors of reproductive-age women, with the genital tract being the most common site for tumors. The type of fibroids and secondary changes were confirmed by histopathologi...

Round ligament leiomyoma of uterus is rare. It can be presented as inguinal swelling mimicking the inguinal hernia or lymph node. Surgical excision is its curative treatment. Definitive diagnosis is made by histopathological examination. A 32 year old pregnant patient having round ligament leiomyoma as diagnosed histopathologically in Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Hospital in 2014 was present...

leiomyoma is a rare benign neoplasm deriving from smooth muscle. vascular leiomyoma is its most common subtype in the oral cavity. it may appear at any age with the greatest incidence in the 4th and 5th decade of life. the common manifestation is a slow-growing, asymptomatic, submucousal mass. the diagnosis is only through microscopic examination requiring special staining. treatment of choice ...

A pure leiomyoma of the prostate is a rare tumor. Less than 30 cases about prostatic leiomyoma have been reported. Pathologic anatomy examination is the only medium for definitive diagnosis and is important to rule out malignancies such as leiomyosarcoma. We describe an accidental finding of a tumor in the right prostate lobe of a 54 year old man, who was diagnosed with prostatic leiomyoma and ...

A case of huge primary leiomyoma of the ureter in which nephroureterectomy was performed is presented. To the best of our knowledge, this case is a unique form of leiomyoma of the ureter due to its large size. There have been only twelve cases of primary leiomyoma of the ureter reported since 1955 and eleven of them were very small and one was big in size but smaller than the present case. Our ...

giant uterine leiomyomas are extremely rare neoplasms and are challenging both diagnostically and therapeutically. a 49-year-old premenopausal female presented at our department complaining of abdominal pain and distention for several years. ultrasound (us), color doppler us, abdominal computed tomography imaging after administration of contrast material, and abdominal magnetic resonance imagin...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The relationship between leiomyoma and endometriosis is poorly understood. Both contribute to considerable pain and may cause subfertility or infertility in women. We conducted this retrospective study to assess the rate of coexistence of endometriosis in women with symptomatic leiomyoma. The primary outcome measured was the coexistence of histology-proven endometriosi...