What's the difference between myoma and myxoma?

Myoma


Definition:

  • (n.) A tumor consisting of muscular tissue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The material comprised nine uterine myomas from one patient, one parametrial leiomyoma from a second patient and five tumors from a third patient with disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis.
  • (2) -- Despite low antigenicity of autologous myoma tissue significant differences in inhibitions of migration were observed depending on the extent of surgical radicality in the adnexal region.
  • (3) Moreover in 3 patients with diagnosis of suspected myoma by curettage, hysteroscopy revealed a normal cavity.
  • (4) Pelvic pain evolved and laparotomy revealed an infected myoma.
  • (5) After 7 injections of Zoladex Depot (ICI Pharma, Heidelberg, Germany), the uterus was reduced to normal size carrying dorsally a myoma of the same size.
  • (6) The low specificity obtained was remarkable: 5 false positive results in two uterine myomas, one abscess, one follicular cyst and one granulation tissue scar.
  • (7) Total myoma volume was also reduced, but only to a P = .06 level.
  • (8) Results show that 31.4% of cases in which there was a thickening of the endometrial echopattern correspond to the presence of polyp, myoma, synechia with atrophic endometrium.
  • (9) Discrepancy in the diagnosis was found in the following cases: a myoma was hyper-diagnosis, a hydrosalpinx was diagnosed as a cyst; a tubo-ovarian formation was found to be hydrosalpinx and vice versa; two hydrosalpinx women with diagnosed hydrosalpinx had tubo-ovarian formations.
  • (10) However, LT activities released spontaneously without PHA were higher in patients with uterine myoma, patients with uterine cervical cancer in stages II to IV, patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, and patients with gastro-intestinal cancer.
  • (11) In the first years of its use, operative laparoscopy for uterine pathology was employed in the surgical treatment of myomas and in the correction of uterine retroversion (hysteropexy).
  • (12) A significant increase in uterine and myoma volume was noted in all the patients at 3 months after treatment.
  • (13) Samples of myomas and myometrium were obtained from seven patients with myomas at the time of hysterectomy.
  • (14) Alcohol absorption was noted in one patient during a myoma resection.
  • (15) In two patients with uterine myoma the bleeding did no stop within 5 days after the abortion.
  • (16) Fifteen patients (36%) had synchronous cervical neoplasia, 26 cases (62%) had antecedent cervical neoplasia and one had undergone operation for uterine myoma.
  • (17) A patient, aged 55, three years after having undergone abdominal histerectomy and adnexectomy for a myoma, developed a hard swelling near the surgical cut in the abdominal wall.
  • (18) The preoperative radiological diagnosis of uterine myomas is particularly indicated in the following situations: 1.
  • (19) One group had myoma (n = 48), another endometriosis (n = 30).
  • (20) Postoperative transvaginal ultrasound one, three and six months later showed the myomas reduced an average of 50-70% beyond the effect attributable to leuprolide.

Myxoma


Definition:

  • (n.) A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
  • (2) The specificity of vaccinia restriction was demonstrated by the ability of myxoma virus to replicate in nonimmune and vaccinia-immune macrophages.
  • (3) This recently reported inherited syndrome should be recognized by pathologists because of major risk of cardiac myxoma.
  • (4) Myxoma virus, a Leporipoxvirus and agent of myxomatosis, was shown to possess a gene with the potential to encode an epidermal growth factorlike factor.
  • (5) Histologic, histochemical, immunocytochemical, and ultrastructural features of two cardiac myxomas containing glandular elements are reported.
  • (6) Cardiac myxomas typically present as a triad of obstructive, embolic, and constitutional symptoms and thus mimic many more common systemic illnesses.
  • (7) Histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of metastases of cardiac myxoma.
  • (8) This report documents four siblings with myxomas, and three of these patients had two or more myxomas.
  • (9) Resection of the myxoma corrected mitral stenosis completely.
  • (10) Thoracotomy revealed a fibro-angio-myxoma attached to the right side of the interatrial septum, and it was removed in toto.
  • (11) Analysis of the clinical material revealed that the myxoma occurred most frequently in the posterior regions of the mandible and will recur if initial therapy is too conservative.
  • (12) Invasive ductal carcinomas were subdivided by three categories: highly stromatous classical adenocarcinoma with poor prognosis, invasive ductal carcinoma with further differentiation (myxoma, squamous carcinoma, pleomorphous macrocellular and parvicellular types), and variations with specific differentiation (serous, mucinous tumours) with good prognosis.
  • (13) Maxillary myxoma is identified by the appearance of a non-inflammatory and often painless swelling which, in radiological terms, appears to have a zone of multilocular and sometimes unilocular osteolysis.
  • (14) One of the patients with myxoma in the left atrium has so far refused cardiosurgical treatment.
  • (15) We report a case of left ventricular myxoma in a 19-year-old man which presented as intermittent aortic valve obstruction.
  • (16) Non-invasive cardiac imaging is essential to establish the diagnosis and differentiate myxoma from the other more common illnesses it imitates.
  • (17) We report a successful tricuspid valve repair after en bloc resection of a myxoma involving the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve.
  • (18) In a 70-year-old man who had angina, exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia, and presyncopal symptoms, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography disclosed a large atrial mass that resembled a myxoma.
  • (19) Electron microscopy of the glandular zones, which has never been reported previously, shown cells having essential homology with the usual myxoma elements.
  • (20) A group of patients with cardiac myxoma who have a heritable syndrome involving skin myxomas, endocrine tumors, and lentiginosis--the complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity--has been described previously.

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