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. |