Uterine intravenous leiomyomatosis a rather rare pathologic condition, and a total of 139 cases have appeared in the English literature. Although two proposals for the histologic origin, uterine lyomyoma itself and/or vascular smooth muscle, have been widely accepted, the precise histogenesis still remains unclear. The additional 140th case of intravenous leiomyomatosis is described, and a third postulation for the histogenesis is proposed.
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Adv Anat Pathol
January 2025
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI.
Uterine smooth muscle neoplasms are a biologically and clinically heterogeneous group of tumors. Morphology is the cornerstone of pathologic diagnosis of these tumors, and most are readily classified as benign or malignant on the basis of routine histologic examination. However, rare subsets-including intravenous leiomyomatosis, benign metastasizing leiomyoma, and disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis-have a capacity for extrauterine spread despite benign cytomorphology.
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October 2024
Department of Pathology, Esic Medical College and Hospital, Faridabad, Haryana, India.
Circ Cardiovasc Imaging
November 2024
Department of Ultrasound Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China (Z.H., Z.S.).
Front Oncol
October 2024
Medical Records Statistics Division, Deyang People's Hospital, Deyang, Sichuan, China.
Intravenous leiomyomatosis (IVL), an abnormal growth pattern of uterine leiomyomas, is a rare tumor characterized by masses of smooth muscle cells appearing histologically benign and proliferating within the blood vessels but not invading the tissue. Currently, there have been limited reports of early cases of IVL, and the imaging characteristics of IVL remain uncertain, resulting in frequent misdiagnosis prior to surgery. The present study utilized a case of early IVL detected through conventional ultrasound and subsequently confirmed contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) to further investigate ultrasound's diagnostic efficacy for early IVL detection.
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October 2024
Department of Echocardiography, Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital, No 753 Jinghan Road, Hankou District, Wuhan 430022, China.
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