ReviewBMC women's health2023
Benign metastasizing uterine leiomyoma with lymphatic and pulmonary metastases: a case report and literature review.
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- Diagnosis, treatment and clinical outcomes of extrauterine sites of leiomyomatosis: a systematic review.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Benign metastasizing leiomyoma: a rare case of osseous involvement.Skeletal radiology · 2026Article
- A unique triple association: intravascular leiomyomatosis, benign metastasizing leiomyoma, and early-stage endometrial carcinoma.AJOG global reports · 2026Article
- Pulmonary Leiomyomatosis in a Postmenopausal Patient After Previous Hysterectomy: A Case Report.Case reports in obstetrics and gynecology · 2026Article
- Life-threatening tracheal leiomyoma presenting as acute respiratory failure masquerading as refractory asthma: A case report.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2026Article
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- Concurrent benign leiomyomas in heart, lung, and abdomen: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2025Article
- Pulmonary Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Retrospective Analysis of Seven Cases Including a Rare Coexistence with In Situ Mucinous Adenocarcinoma.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Molecular genetic analysis of pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma and intravenous leiomyomatosis: a comparative study using whole exome sequencing.Discover oncology · 2025Article
- Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma presenting as acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: a case report.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
- Benign metastasizing fumarate hydratase (FH)-deficient uterine leiomyomas: clinicopathological and molecular study with first documentation of multi-organ metastases.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2024Article
- Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: a case description and analysis of the literature.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Comprehensive Review of Uterine Leiomyosarcoma: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Targeted Therapy.Cells · 2024Review
- A diagnosis you wouldn't expect in a supraclavicular mass.Pathologica · 2024Article
- Rare manifestation of pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma: Respiratory failure.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2024Article
- A Rare Case of Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma Causing T11 Spinal Cord Compression: A Report and Literature Review.Cureus · 2023Article
- Pulmonary benign metastasizing uterine leiomyoma (PBML): a case report and review of the literature.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Benign metastasizing leiomyoma with retroperitoneal lymph node involvement in a patient with a history of renal cell carcinoma.Indian journal of urology : IJU : journal of the Urological Society of IndiaArticle
- Diverse Presentations of Extrauterine Leiomyomas in the Female Urogenital Tract: A Retrospective Series of 51 Cases.Journal of mid-life healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundBenign metastasizing leiomyoma (BML) is a rare disease usually observed in women of reproductive or premenopausal age with a history of uterine myomectomy or hysterectomy. The most common sites of metastases are the pulmonary, and other sites include heart, bones, liver, lymph nodes, bladder, skeletal muscles, and central nervous system. Here, we report a case of a 50 year-old woman with a history of hysterectomy who was initially suspected of uterine sarcoma but was finally confirmed to have BML with lung and lymph node metastases, and discuss the treatment and prognosis of BML. CASE PRESENTATION: A 50 year-old woman with a history of total abdominal hysterectomy presented with mild but persistent abdominal pain for more than 3 months. She was suspected of having uterine sarcoma before surgery and laparoscopic extensive debulking surgery including bilateral oophorectomy, pelvic and para-aortic lymph node dissection to the level of the left renal vein, and transcutaneous dissection of the right inguinal lymph nodes. Pathology confirmed a benign leiomyoma, and the patient was diagnosed with BML. No medication was administered after the surgery, and the follow-up was of no significance.
conclusionBenign metastasizing leiomyoma (BML) is a rare disorder in which histologically benign smooth muscle tumors metastasize to extrauterine sites. Metastases are commonly observed in the lung, liver, lymph nodes, skin, bladder, esophagus, and skeletal muscles. BML is usually misdiagnosed as a malignant tumor before surgery until the pathology confirms its benign nature. However, this treatment remains controversial and undetermined. The prognosis is usually favorable owing to its benign nature.
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