BACKGROUND Uterine myomas are common pelvic masses during pregnancy. The pain and rapid growth of myomas are among the most common complications during pregnancy. We evaluate management of painful cystic degeneration of myomas during pregnancy. CASE A 27-year-old primigravida had a pelvic mass. We have managed a case in which the diagnosis of cystic degeneration of uterine myomas could not be...

BACKGROUND Uterine myomas co-existing with pregnancy could cause obstetric complications. OBJECTIVES To assess sonographically the frequency of occurrence and effect of uterine myomas co-existing with pregnancy. METHODS A longitudinal study was conducted during a period of 23 months. A convenience sample of 816 consecutive consenting pregnant women who met the inclusion criteria was evaluat...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study is to evaluate the long term effects of estrogen-progestogen therapy (EPT) on uterine myomas volume in postmenopausal women. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis on postmenopausal women with asymptomatic uterine myoma during the period between April, 2008 and September, 2012. Postmenopause was defined as amenorrhea for longer than a year or ser...

Uterine myoma is a common condition among women, which may very rarely be associated with deep venous thrombosis (VT). Few reports of myoma with associated VT have been reported in the English language and, of those, only three were associated with embolic events. This manuscript reports the case of a 29-year-old patient who presented with pulmonary embolism due to iliac VT secondary to extrins...

OBJECTIVE Myoma of the uterine cervix is rare, accounting for about 5% of all myomas. Compared with myomas that occur in the uterine corpus, cervical myomas are closer to other organs such as the bladder, ureter, and rectum, and the approach needs to be modified because the organs that have to be considered differ depending on the location of the myoma. We divided cervical myomas into 2 types a...

Uterine myoma and adenomyoma are the most common benign tumors of the uterus. Ultrasound Imaging is the widely used method in the diagnosis of both the disease conditions; however the diagnosis strongly depends on the physician’s expertise and ultrasound system quality. These drawbacks have motivated the development of computer aided applications for the quantitative analysis of ultrasound imag...

background hysteroscopy is the gold standard method for diagnosis of intrauterine pathologies. current study is a review of hysteroscopic findings performed over a period of 5 years in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (aub). objective the aim of this study was a review of hysteroscopic findings performed over a period of 5 years in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (aub). patients ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the factors associated with serum levels of several tumor markers in a group of patients operated for uterine myoma. One hundred thirty-seven female patients operated for uterine myoma were included. Serum samples were examined for CA 125, CA 19-9, CA 15-3, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels as part of routine workup. Patho...

The etiology of low back pain is often thought to include musculoskeletal disorders, such as lomber disc herniation or strain.Less commonly, low back pain is thought to refer from viscera.Sources of pain referred to the low back in females include uterine conditions.We aimed to investigate the female population of a rheumatology clinic to define the rate of uterine conditions that a rheumatolog...