benign tumours, consisting of muscle fibres, that can occur in any organ but are most commonly found in the uterus
Examples of 'leiomyomata' in a sentence
leiomyomata
Uterine smooth muscle tumors range from benign leiomyomata to low- and high-grade leiomyosarcomas.
Loredana Miglietta, Luciano Canobbio, Maria Angela Parodi, Luca Anselmi 2010, 'Unusual Osteoblastic Secondary Lesion as Predominant Metastatic Disease Spread inTwo Cases of Uterine Leiomyosarcoma', Case Reports in Oncologyhttp://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/287639. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Intraoperatively, a normal sized uterus was found, the surface of which was studded with multiple variable sized pedunculated subserous leiomyomata.
Soliman Amr A, ElSabaa Bassma, Hassan Noha, Sallam Hassan, Ezzat Tarek 2011, 'Degenerated huge retroperitoneal leiomyoma presenting with sonographic features mimickinga large uterine leiomyoma in an infertile woman with a history of myomectomy: a casereport', Journal of Medical Case Reportshttp://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/5/1/578. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)