OBJECTIVE To evaluate if uterine myoma is associated with breast cancer. METHODS This case-control study used a nationwide database in Taiwan. We identified 24,315 patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer as cases and matched them with 24,281 patients without breast cancer on age, sex, urbanization, income, and initial diagnosis date. Patients with prior mastectomy were excluded. We used l...

A thirty-five-year-old infertile woman underwent two trials of hysteroscopic resection of a large calcified submucous myoma. During the first surgery, a resectoscope and an orthopedic rongeru forceps were used. Fifty-one grams of myoma were removed. During the second operation, a pneumatic urological lithotriptor (Swiss LithoClast) was used. Only fourteen grams of myoma were removed. Because th...

BACKGROUND Submucous myomas may be associated with menorrhagia, infertility and dysmenorrhea. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the long term effects of submucousal myoma resection on menorrhagia and infertility; also to detect whether the type, size, and location of myoma affect the surgical success. MATERIALS AND METHODS Totally 98 women referred to hysteroscopy for symptom...

Laparoscopic minilaparotomy in 6 patients using the Maher abdominal elevator facilitated both quicker enucleation and morcellation of the myoma and suture of the myoma cavity. Myoma reduction in 12 patients by electrosurgery resulted in a 60% reduction in myoma diameter with failure in 2 patients. This technique may avoid myomectomy and be particularly useful in patients with infertility or nea...

We read with interest the paper by Check and colleagues (Check et al., 2002). In their study, the authors focus on the highly interesting question of the possible influence of intramural myoma on the outcome of IVF. We think it is appropriate to discuss two points critically, which should be considered in the nomenclature and diagnosis of intramural myoma in future multicentre studies. Myoma co...

Objective: The natural growth progression of uterine leiomyomata will be studied and used to identify potential predictive criteria of myoma size development. This should answer the question of whether myoma growth is dependent on patient age, or on the localisation or original size of the myoma, as well as how much of a size increase can be expected per unit of time, and the proportion of myom...

Uterine leiomyomata (myomas) are associated with a variety of characteristic cytogenetic abnormalities. The significance of these chromosomal aberrations in the pathobiology of myomas remains to be determined. The present study investigated the relationship between myoma cytogenetic abnormalities and size. A total of 114 myoma specimens were obtained from 92 patients undergoing myomectomy or hy...

The value of interventional ultrasound in the diagnosis and treatment of submucous myoma of the uterus was assessed to study the ultrasonographic features of modified sonohysterography for submucous polyp of uterus. A total of 25 patients diagnosed preliminarily as submucous myoma of the uterus via conventional ultrasound examination from June 2014 to December 2016 were enrolled in the study. T...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety of cesarean myomectomy in large myomas sized >5 cm. METHODS One hundred sixty-five pregnant women with myomas who delivered via cesarean section were identified. Ninety-six women had cesarean section without myomectomy, and 65 women underwent cesarean myomectomy. We compared the maternal characteristics, neonatal weight, myoma types, and operative outcomes bet...