Uterine carcinosarcomas are rare and highly aggressive tumors with a poor prognosis. Due to early metastasis and disease progression, it is known to be far more aggressive than matched grade 3 endometroid endometrial carcinomas. Five-year survival for stage IV is reported to be 10% and overall survival for stage IVB is expected to be very poor. The authors report one case after experiencing lon...

Atypical polypoid adenomyoma (APAM) is a rare polypoid tumor of the uterus composed of atypical endometrial glands surrounded by smooth muscle. A 29-year-old nulligravida, was clinically diagnosed with endocervical myoma and underwent trans-uterine cervical resection with hysteroscope. The histopathological diagnosis of specimens was APAM. Eight months later, she diagnosed recurrent uterine tum...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to assess the rate of persistent submucosal myomas and intrauterine scarring after hysteroscopic myomectomy, as well as to evaluate the preoperative and intraoperative sonohysterographic findings that will predict persistence of myomas, scarring, and the need for repeat surgery. METHODS Charts from all hysteroscopic myomectomies performed...

522 SPONTANEOUS RUPTURE OF THE UTERINE ARTERY IN A NON-PREGNANT WOMAN MISDIAGNOSED AS THE RUPTURE OF VESSEL IN CERVICAL MYOMA Soo Jin Park, MD, Byung Seob Park, MD, Sung Wook Chun, MD, Yong Il Ji, MD, Ji Hoon Ok, MD, Tae Gyun Kim, MD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine; Dong-A University Hospital, Dong-A University College of Medi...

INTRODUCTION Pelvic pain results from many causes such as primary dysmenorrhea, uterine anomalies, menstrual outflow obstruction, endometriosis, myoma and adenomyosis. This study reports on a rare case of non-communicating functional rudimentary horn. CASE PRESENTATIONS A 15-year-old nulligravida young woman with a history of severe intermittent pelvic pain presented a 4-5 centimeter mass. A ...

Nowadays, uterine myomas represent a very common clinical entity. Approximately 20%-40% of the women in the reproductive age have uterine myomas [1,2]. However, in menopause there is a significant decrease in the incidence of uterine myomas [2,3]. A lot of patients with uterine myomas have no symptoms, because these tumors are usually asymptomatic [1]. Nevertheless, patients with uterine myomas...

Minimal Access Surgery is increasingly becoming popular in almost all areas of surgery. Likewise laparoscopic myomectomy in carefully selected cases is becoming the method of choice over the conventional open approach for treatment of uterine myoma. The advantages of Laparoscopic myomectomy cannot be over emphasized [1,2]. However, the main concern has been the integrity of the scar in subseque...

We describe two cases of uterine rupture in pregnancy after laparoscopic myomectomy and analyze all the aetiological factors involved in this circumstance according to the recent literature, focusing above all on the surgical procedures and the characteristics of the excised myomas. The two cases of uterine rupture in pregnancy following laparoscopic myomectomy occurred at 36 and 18 weeks of ge...