This is a low power micrograph of a uterine leiomyoma.

Question 1: What is a leiomyoma?

- Leiomyoma is a benign neoplasia composed of bundles of smooth muscle cells, and is seen in the myometrium of about 25% of women in active reproductive life

Question 2: Outline the boundry between the laiomyoma and the myometrium.

- see line.

Question 3: Uterine leiomyomas are often classified according to it's position within the uterine wall. What are the three subtypes and which type do you see here?

- Intramural, submocosal and subserosal leiomyomas. The one seen here is an intramural leiomyoma because it is located in the middle of the myometrium  without contact with the serosa or the mucosa.