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Intravenous leiomyomatosis
L Grella1, T E Arnold, K H Kvilekval
1Department of Surgery, University Medical Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-8191.
Journal of Vascular Surgery
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
Intravenous leiomyomatosis is a rare tumor in which benign smooth muscle cells grow into the pelvic venous channels of female patients. A case of intravenous leiomyomatosis with cardiac extension in a 45-year-old woman is described. The patient was diagnosed with cardiac syncope 3 months after total abdominal hysterectomy and was successfully treated with a two-stage approach consisting of sternotomy followed by laparotomy. The cause, disease, presentation, diagnosis, treatment and recurrence are reviewed.