What's the difference between myoma and tumor?

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.

Tumor


Definition:

  • (n.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
  • (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (2) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
  • (3) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
  • (4) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
  • (5) Tumor shrinkage was documented by A-scan ultrasonography in all but one patient.
  • (6) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
  • (7) In spite of dense lymphocytic infiltration only 3% of the tumor infiltrating lymphocytes exhibit the activation marker CD 25.
  • (8) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
  • (9) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
  • (10) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
  • (11) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
  • (12) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
  • (13) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
  • (14) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
  • (15) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
  • (16) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
  • (17) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
  • (18) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
  • (19) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
  • (20) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.

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