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Leiomyoma

Author: Raul S. Gonzalez, M.D. (see Authors page)

Revised: 28 February 2017, last major update February 2017

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Table of Contents
Definition / general | Essential features | Terminology | Sites | Clinical features | Diagnosis | Case reports | Treatment | Clinical images | Gross description | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) images | Positive stains | Negative stains | Differential diagnosis | Additional references
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Definition / general
  • Benign smooth muscle proliferation of colon
Essential features
  • Benign incidental tumor arising in muscularis mucosae
Terminology
  • "Symplastic leiomyoma" refers to benign tumor with bizarre nuclear atypia and possibly increased mitotic activity
Sites
  • Most gastrointestinal tract leiomyomas arise in colon
  • Majority arise in rectosigmoid (Mod Pathol 2001;14:950)
Clinical features
  • Benign
  • More common in men
  • Median age is 62 years
Diagnosis
  • Generally discovered incidentally during colonoscopy
Case reports
Treatment
  • Total excision is adequate treatment
Clinical images
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Leiomyoma on colonoscopy

Endoscopic removal of a leiomyoma

Gross description
  • Firm, white, well delineated nodule or polyp, generally < 1 cm
Microscopic (histologic) description
  • Well differentiated smooth muscle cells with red fibrillar cytoplasm, arranged in fascicles and arising from muscularis mucosae (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2011;135:1311)
  • Usually no mitotic activity or necrosis
  • Symplastic leiomyomas demonstrate significant atypia and possibly increased mitotic activity
Microscopic (histologic) images

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Contributed by Dr. Raul Gonzalez, University of Rochester Medical Center (USA):

   

Leiomyoma

 

Symplastic leiomyoma




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Leiomyoma of muscularis mucosa

Symplastic leiomyoma

Positive stains
Negative stains
Differential diagnosis
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