Extrauterine leiomyomas are rare, benign, and may arise in any anatomic sites. Their unusual growth pattern may even mimic malignancy and can result in a clinical dilemma. Occasionally, uterine leiomyomas become adherent to surrounding structures. They also develop an auxiliary blood supply, and lose their original attachment to the uterus, thus becoming ‘parasitic’. Parasitic myomas may also b...

background: giant retroperitoneal uterine leiomyomas are uncommon. degenerative changes of a leiomyoma may lead to unusual presentation resulting in misdiagnosis preoperatively. the final diagnosis can be made either intraoperatively or histologically. case: we report a 45-year-old multiparous women presented with abdominal distension and fatigue for six months. abdominopelvic sonography and co...

Bladder leiomyomas are rare benign mesenchymal tumors, which account for less than 0.43% of all bladder tumors with approximately 200 cases described in the literature. These tumors may be classified into 3 different locations: endovesical, intramural and extravesical. Endovesical is the most common form, accounting for 63-86% of the cases, while intramural occurs in 3-7% and extravesical in 11...

Uterine leiomyomas are common and can affect up to 30% of women older than 35 years. Despite this, leiomyomas of the vulva are rare, masquerading, and usually misdiagnosed as Bartholin cyst preoperatively. These smooth muscle tumors are typically painless, solitary, and well circumscribed and can affect female of any age group. We present a case of a 46-year-old female that presented to the cli...

Realistic generation of variable anatomical organ models and pathologies are crucial for a sophisticated surgical training simulator. A training scene needs to be different in every session in order to exhaust the full potential of virtual reality based training. We previously reported on a cellular automaton able to generate leiomyomas found in the uterine cavity. This paper presents an altern...

Scrotal leiomyomas with atypical bizarre nuclei are rare, which might be misdiagnosed as malignant tumor. We describe a case of scrotal bizarre leiomyoma in a 65-yr-old man. The tumor was a 1 cm-sized, well circumscribed, oval mass arising from the tunica dartos muscle. Histologically, it was formed by whorling bundles of fusiform cells with occasional atypical, pleomorphic nuclei and pseudo-in...

Abstract Background Leiomyomas are the most common benign esophageal tumors originating from muscular layer. They rare lesions that constitute less than 1% of neoplasms. In one-third patients leiomyomas occur at level gastroesophageal junction. Minimally invasive surgery is considered today treatment choice with laparoscopic approach used for distal tumors. Methods We present case a 79-year-old...

We present a review of the reported cases and describe a fifth of neurofibromatosis with small bowel adenocarcinoma and concurrent leiomyomas, indicating a previously unrecognised association.

Fibroids/Leiomyomas are the most common benign mesenchymal neoplasms and consist of smooth muscle cells with variable amounts fibrous stoma. Atypical leiomyomas rare forms myoma (fibroid uterus), which recurrent atypical leiomyoma post hysterectomy is rarer its converting into leiomyosarcoma rising from vault rarest. The tumor occurs frequently in uterus, affecting 20-30% women reproductive age...