Recurrent urethral leiomyoma presenting as stress incontinence

Merrell, Raymond W.; Brown, Harold E.

doi:10.1016/0090-4295(81)90082-0

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“…V vagina them as urethral or paraurethral. We identified 19 cases of urethral leiomyoma in the literature plus two additional cases presented here [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Mean age of these women was 38.8 years (range 21-69), and median size of the leiomyoma was 3 cm (range 1.5-13 cm).…”

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Urethral and paraurethral leiomyomas in the female patient

Özel

Ballard

2005

Int Urogynecol J

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Urethral leiomyomas in women arise from the smooth muscle of the urethra and are rare, benign urethral tumors seen primarily in women. We present three cases of urethral leiomyomas identified over a 30-year period at our institution. A 45-year old woman presented with a 1 year history of frequency, nocturia, and hesitancy and was found to have both a 2-cm proximal urethral and a 3-cm posterior bladder leiomyoma. She developed stress urinary incontinence postoperatively and was treated with a Burch colposuspension. A 33-year old woman with hematuria was found to have both a 3-cm urethral and a 3-cm paraurethral leiomyoma at the bladder neck. A 21-year old without urinary complaints was found to have a 3-cm leiomyoma at the urethral meatus. Urethral leiomyomas must be differentiated from paraurethral leiomyomas, which are often asymptomatic and may be removed without disrupting the urethral mucosa or smooth muscle. The removal of urethral myomas may be complicated by the development stress urinary incontinence or urethral stricture.

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Urethral and paraurethral leiomyomas in the female patient

Özel

Ballard

2005

Int Urogynecol J

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“…The literature shows the rarity of these cases. We have only been able to find 4 cases of paraurethral masses in women, in which 3 had a leiomyomatous structure [3,5] and the other a cystic one (table I). lows to exclude the existence of any communication with the ure thra, bladder or vagina [3,9]. Surgery is indispensable.…”

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Paraurethral Leiomyoma in Women

Cello¹,

Saltutti²,

Mincione³

et al. 1988

Eur Urol

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“…Concerning the leiomyoma, we could only find one male case in the liter ature [7], although 20 female cases have been reported [2][3][4][5][6], This one case of male leiomyoma was found in a paper by Kollias and Wieland [7] on a series of 64 tumors of the male urethra. Unfortunately the details of the cases were not described.…”

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confidence: 97%