(a.) Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.
(n.) A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.
Example Sentences:
(1) In premenopausal women, submucous fibroids were the main findings and in post-menopausal women, 59 per cent had an atrophic endometrium.
(2) These can be divided aetiologically in to: 54 cases of simple hyperplasia of the endometrium (15.9%), 34 cases with submucous fibroids (10.6%), 26 cases of adenomyosis (5.9%).
(3) Only 2 of 12 fibroids, which showed a smaller response (less than 50%) to GnRH therapy, were reduced by more than 35% after 4 and 8 weeks.
(4) Retrospective statistical analysis showed that a 50% reduction in fibroid size due to GnRH treatment is preceded by a 35% reduction after 4 weeks in 81% of cases, and after 8 weeks in all cases.
(5) Of the six cases that did not meet the MR criteria for the diagnosis of leiomyoma, three were proved to be degenerated fibroids, one was squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix, and two were ovarian malignant tumors.
(6) It is easy to fall into diagnostic and therapeutic traps when uterine fibroids are known to be present, especially when they occur concomitantly with a condition such as irregular uterine bleeding, infertility, or pregnancy.
(7) Six patients with large uterine fibroids were given a single subcutaneous implant of an LHRH analogue (goserelin 3.5 mg) prior to elective hysterectomy.
(8) Both unoccupied oestradiol receptors (measured by separating bound from free hormone with dextran-coated charcoal; DCC) and 'total' receptor populations (as measured by an enzyme immunoassay) were measured in each fibroid and adjoining myometrium.
(9) There are variations in the type and frequency of ultrasound equipment, maternal anatomical characteristics (obesity, coexisting fibroids, uterine version), and in the visual acuity of observers.
(10) A sample of 58 cases of genital malignancies are compared with 50 cases of benign neoplasms (fibroids) and their effects on sexuality, as a parameter of the quality of life, are studied and reported.
(11) Twelve patients (group II) had abnormal hysteroscopic findings including small uterine septa, small submucous fibroids, uterine hypoplasia and cervical ridges.
(12) Inflammatory fibroid polyps are lesions occurring in the submucosa of the gastrointestinal tract.
(13) Cao suffered from several conditions, including tuberculosis, liver disease and uterine fibroids, according to the New York-based group Human Rights in China .
(14) Risk factors for uterine fibroids were analyzed in a hospital-based case-control study conducted in the greater Milan area, based on 275 women with histologically confirmed fibroids and 722 controls with acute nongynecologic or hormone-related conditions.
(15) Macroscopically the tumor reveals a striking resemblance with an uterine fibroid.
(16) Among 3,200 polyps of the stomach, we diagnosed inflammatory fibroid polyp in 143 patients (4.5%).
(17) Whereas leiomyoma exhibited higher estradiol binding capacity, the concentration of progesterone receptors was low in fibroid tumors.
(18) Postoperative pathological examination of the resected stomach disclosed a widely spreading early carcinoma and two concomitant submucosal lesions which were histologically compatible with inflammatory fibroid polyp (IFP).
(19) A new method of vaginal removal of submucous fibroids was attempted on 151 patients.
(20) In women with uterine fibroids, therapy leads to reduction of uterine volume and alleviation of symptoms although the benefit is rapidly reversed when therapy ceases.
Fibroma
Definition:
(n.) A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of congenital subglottic fibroma is presented.
(2) The profile of polypeptide bands of cowpox virions was also almost the same as that of vaccinia virions, except for several polypeptides of about 40,000 to 50,000 daltons, but the profile of Shope fibroma virions differed considerably from that of vaccinia or cowpox virions.
(3) In this paper, 5 patients with benign tumor (3 tubular adenoma, 1 leiomyoma and 1 fibroma) and 35 pseudotumor (26 cholesterol polyps and 9 inflammatory polyps) of the gallbladder are presented.
(4) Therefore we propose "proliferating ameloblastic fibroma" as a more appropriate designation.
(5) Two cases of Tikhor-Linberg resection for rhabdomyosarcoma and malignant chondromyxoid fibroma and two cases of scapulectomy for metastatic disease of the shoulder girdle are reviewed.
(6) The frequencies in the two groups are as follows: In the benign group, osteoma had the highest incidence and then, with decreasing frequencies: osteochondroma, chondroma, synovioma, giant cell tumor, ossifying fibroma, osteoid osteoma, chondromyxoid fibroma.
(7) To investigate the possibility that the syndrome is caused by mutation in a tumor suppressor gene, we searched for loss of heterozygosity in 16 sporadic basal cell carcinomas, 2 hereditary basal cell carcinomas, and 1 hereditary ovarian fibroma and performed genetic linkage studies in five Gorlin syndrome kindreds.
(8) An unusual case of severe palatal fibromas and concomitant vestibular exostosis in a 36-year-old woman is presented.
(9) Among the patients subjected to operation, 21 had echinococcosis, 6 had bronchiectasis, 4 had a chronic abscess, 3 had an acute abscess of the lungs complicated by pyothorax, 3 had bullous disease, 2 had bronchogenic cysts, and 2 patients had hemangiopericytoma and fibroma of the lungs.
(10) Thus, fibroma of tendon sheath can be regarded as a synovial tumour with myofibroblastic differentiation.
(11) An unusual case of a one-day-old infant with significant left ventricular outflow obstruction produced by a pedunculated fibroma is described.
(12) They most often involved the frontal and parietal regions and were composed predominantly of a dense desmoplastic tissue superficially resembling a moderately cellular fibroma.
(13) Aromatase, 17 alpha-hydroxylase, and cholesterol side-chain cleavage P-450 cytochromes (P-450AROM, P-450(17 alpha,) and P-450SCC, respectively) were immunohistochemically localized in nine granulosa cell tumors, 15 thecomas, ten Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors, two steroid cell tumors, five fibromas, and five sclerosing stromal tumors.
(14) The fibromas were transmitted by intradermal and subcutaneous inoculation and by rubbing the virus preparation into tattoo sites.
(15) The treatment of desmoplastic fibromas affecting the facial skeleton should be conservative.
(16) A case of primary chondromyxoid fibroma of the petrous and sphenoid bones extending into the posterior clinoid process, sella, and cavernous sinus in a 26-year-old man is reported.
(17) Histological examination of the African hare fibromas revealed intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies characteristic of poxviruses and poxvirus virions were demonstrated by electron microscopy of ultrathin sections.
(18) Mastopathy was associated with a uterine fibroma or a fibromatous uterus in 73% of cases.
(19) I investigated whether and how actin subunits exchange in this region by microinjecting living gerbil fibroma cells (IMR-33) with actin that had been labeled with iodoacetamidotetramethylrhodamine.
(20) One personal case is cited that illustrates the great risks that resulted from delay in operating for fibromas which eventually led to repeated pulmonary embolisms because of pelvic compression.