Data on leiomyoma reported by researchers at Wayne State University.

" Benign uterine leiomyomas are sometimes found in association with benign smooth muscle tumors outside the confines of the uterus and are given the name benign metastasizing leiomyomas (BML). We present two patients who were on estrogen replacement therapy, in which BML recurred twice despite previous hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (TAH/BSO) requiring two additional laparotomies," investigators in the United States report (see also Leiomyoma).

" Our patients, presented with multiple abdominal masses 6 years after their initial surgery for benign leiomyoma. At exploratory laparotomy multiple benign leiomyomas were resected, and in one case a 2.2 cm leiomyoma was also resected from the left lower lobe of the lung. Both patients had a third laparotomy for another abdominal recurrence approximately 2 years later. Pathology revealed benign leiomyomas with no cytological atypia and a mitotic count of

The researchers concluded: "Despite surgery to remove these tumors, they can still recur; therefore, there is need for prolonged surveillance in such patients after resection."

Awonuga and colleagues published their study in Archives of ...