The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning against the use of laparoscopic power morcellators in the majority of women undergoing myomectomy or hysterectomy for the treatment of leiomyomas because of the concern for inadvertent spread of tumor cells if an undiagnosed cancer were present. The authors, representing a 45-member review group, reviewed the current literature to formulate...

Leiomyomas are common benign gynecologic tumors occurring in up to 30% of women. Round ligament leiomyomas however are very rare and, if symptomatic, can present as an inguinal hernia. We report the case of a 47-year-old woman who presented with an irreducible inguinal mass consistent with an incarcerated hernia. Intraoperatively, the mass was found to be a round ligament leiomyoma, a diagnosis...

warty dyskeratoma is a rare tumor that presents mainly as an isolated papule or nodule on the scalp, face or neck in the adults. warty dyskeratoma frequently arises as a single lesion with a central keratotic plug on the skin of middle-aged or elderly people. multiple warty dyskeratomas are very rare cutaneous lesions which are mostly seen on the scalp. we herein report a multiple warty dyskera...

Amongst all the glandular lesions of the cervix, minimal deviation adenocarcinoma (MDA) the, so called Adenomamalignum and its mimickers have been the subject of great interest in the literature. Although a rare entity, MDA commonly requires consultancy to distinguish it from many benign cervical glandular lesions. MDA is a unique neoplasm of the uterine cervix, characterized by mucinous glands...

Uterine leiomyomas are a major health problem for women of reproductive age. The molecular biology of these tumors is poorly understood partly because of the lack of relevant animal models. We have produced transgenic mice expressing the simian virus 40 T antigen driven by the promoter of the Calbindin-D9K (CaBP9K) gene and either -1,000 or -117 bp of regulatory sequences so as to establish in ...

A matched follow-up study design was used to test the hypothesis that pregnancy rates following assisted reproduction procedures do not differ between women with or without intramural or sub-serosal uterine leiomyomas. Women undergoing their first in-vitro fertilization (IVF)-embryo transfer or zygote intra-Fallopian transfer (ZIFT) cycle between January 1993 and June 1995 were included. Cases ...

Bladder leiomyomas are benign mesenchymal neoplasms and very rare urinary tumours that represent <0.5% of all bladder tumours, with only 250 cases reported worldwide to date [1,2]. Patients with bladder leiomyomas can be asymptomatic, but the majority present with obstructive symptoms (49%), irritative symptoms (38%) and hematuria (11%) [3,4]. The importance of recognizing their characteristic ...