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- Title
Cystic Uterine Tumors.
- Authors
Protopapas, Athanasios; Milingos, Spyros; Markaki, Sophia; Loutradis, Dimitrios; Haidopoulos, Dimitrios; Sotiropoulou, Maria; Antsaklis, Aris
- Abstract
Background/Aims: The differential diagnosis of cystic uterine tumors includes fibroids showing cystic degeneration, cystic adenomyomas, congenital cysts, and developmental anomalies. Methods: The incidence, clinical presentation and accuracy in preoperative diagnosis of cystic uterine tumors were studied in a university hospital population over a 6-year period. Results: 29 cases were included. Of these, 8 corresponded to the diagnosis of a non-fibroid uterine cystic enlargement, and 21 to that of a fibroid with cystic degeneration. Age and parity were significantly lower in patients with non-fibroid cysts. Rates of symptomatic women (60 vs. 55.6%) were similar in both groups. The preoperative diagnosis was accurate in 20/21 (95.2%) cases with a degenerated leiomyoma. On the contrary, in 6/8 (75%) cases with a non-fibroid cystic swelling an erroneous diagnosis of an adnexal or an extrauterine mass was made preoperatively. In this group, histology of the tumor showed a cystic adenomyoma in 3, a congenital cyst in 3, and a blind rudimentary uterine horn in 2 cases, respectively. Conclusion: Uterine cystic tumors are uncommon. Frequently, non-fibroid swellings are erroneously diagnosed as adnexal enlargements and their true origin only becomes evident during surgery. Copyright © 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
UTERINE cancer; UTERINE fibroids; CYSTS (Pathology); MUSCLE tumors; TUMORS
- Publication
Gynecologic & Obstetric Investigation, 2008, Vol 65, Issue 4, p275
- ISSN
0378-7346
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000113871