Uterine fibroma, leiomyoma or myoma, is both the most common solid tumor, as well as the most frequent smooth muscle tumor in women [1, . It occurs in about 50% of women of reproductive age, and although many leiomyomas are asymptomatic, they may well lead to perturbing symptoms such as heavy menstrual bleeding, pelvic pressure symptoms and infertility . Consequently, this benign uterine tumor ...

PURPOSE To evaluate whether electroacupuncture is a safe and effective alternative to pharmacologic sedation/analgesia in uterine artery embolization (UAE) for leiomyomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS A nonrandomized prospective study was undertaken in 70 consecutive patients (mean age, 39.5 years) undergoing UAE with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) particles between August 2006 and January 2007. Thirty-thr...

Leiomyomas are the most common benign mesenchymal uterine tumour. The vast majority of these have a typical macroscopic and histological appearance. Approximately 10% leiomyomas subtyped due to unusual or microscopic differences. Cotyledonoid dissecting considered one rarer subtypes leiomyoma, with distinct features that can be worrying for malignancy require correlation diagnosis. Whilst will ...

Cutaneous leiomyomas are uncommon, benign smooth muscle tumors originating from the arrector pili muscle of the hair follicle that are frequently unrecognized and underdiagnosed by clinicians. They sometimes coexist with common uterine fibroids in an inherited disorder named multiple cutaneous and uterine leiomyomatosis, also referred to as Reed's syndrome. We report a case of Reed's syndrome i...

PURPOSE To assess 12-month outcomes and safety of clinical magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ultrasound (US) treatments of uterine leiomyomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between March 2005 and December 2009, 150 women with symptomatic uterine leiomyomas were clinically treated with MR-guided focused US at a single institution; 130 patients completed treatment and agreed to have their data use...

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to determine the occurrence of UFLs and the dynamics of their development, as well as to evaluate the histopathology and relationship with regressive stromal changes. 3750 uterine specimens were reviewed during the period between 1984 and 2003. In the examined series of 3750 uteruses removed due to tumors or prolapse, 50 cases with four types of changes were ...

Smooth muscle tumors of the uterus are rare in rats. In our colony such tumors have never been found. It is true, however, that only a fraction of the colony has been allowed to reach extreme old age before autopsy. Bullock and Curtis (1) have data on over 2450 rats with cysticercus tumors and 489 rats with independent or primary spontaneous tumors. In the latter group there were 48 uterine tum...

Benign solid teratomas within the fallopian tube are rare. The incidence of this kind of benign solid teratoma of the fallopian tube associated with intrauterine leiomyomas is extremely low and may complicate the clinical manifestations. Here, we report a 40-year-old female with periodic lower abdominal pain and hypermenorrhea who was found to have 3 nodules within the uterine myometrium and le...

Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) are the most prevalent medical problem of the female reproductive tract, but there are few non-surgical treatment options. Although many advances in the understanding of the molecular components of these tumors have occurred over the past five years, an effective pharmaceutical approach remains elusive. Further, there is currently no clinical method to distinguish ...

A 31-year-old nulliparous woman visited our hospital complaining of abdominal distension. Abdominal ultrasonography and computed tomography revealed a 40 × 40 × 30-cm, multilocular cystic mass extending from the upper abdomen to the pelvis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a cystic tumor that was hypointense on T1-weighted images and was heterogeneously hyperintense on T2-weighted imag...