0 a benign tumour (= one that is not likely to cause death) of muscle tissue, especially in the uterus (= the organ in a woman's body where a baby develops)
It is performed primarily for abnormal uterine bleeding in women without large leiomyoma.
This condition is related to benign metastasizing leiomyoma, in which the masses appear in more distant locations such as the lung and lymph nodes.
Decreased expression of this gene in human uterine leiomyoma is found to be inversely associated with the expression of estrogen receptor alpha.
Uterine fibroids (leiomyoma) are benign tumors of the uterus that cause bleeding and pelvic pain in approximately 30% of affected women.
Imaging modalities can not clearly distinguish between the benign uterine leiomyoma and the malignant uterine leiomyosarcoma, however, the latter is quite rare.
But, later reports indicated that he had a benign but infected leiomyoma.
There are two main types of smooth muscle tumour: the benign leiomyoma and the malignant leiomyosarcoma.
When such a neoplasm is benign, it is a leiomyoma.
