(n.) The appearance of muscae volitantes. See Muscae volitantes, under Musca.
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Myosis
Definition:
(n.) Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.
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(1) A case of recurrent low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (endolymphatic stromal myosis) presenting as an intracardiac neoplasm is reported.
(2) The myosis belongs to the endometrial stromal sarcoma.
(3) Twenty-two patients had endolymphatic stromal myosis and 9 patients had endometrial stromal sarcoma.
(4) A biopsy case of endolymphatic stromal myosis, a rare neoplasm of the uterus, which occurred in a 33-year-old female was described.
(5) We report two cases of endometrial stromal sarcoma of low-grade malignancy (so-called endolymphatic stromal myosis) with special emphasis on the histogenesis and mode of invasion.
(6) Four of the patients were categorized as having a uterine endolymphatic stromal myosis (ESM) with less than 10 mitoses per 10 HPF and five patients as having an endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) with more than 10 mitoses per 10 HPF.
(7) Authors have taken into consideration the most likely differential diagnoses: endolymphatic stromal myosis and low-grade leiomyosarcoma, they study the problem of the so-called "benign metastasizing leiomyoma" and emphasize that intravenous leiomyomatosis is frequently underdiagnosed.
(8) There are several anatomo-pathological and clinical features which point to the fact that stromal myosis is hormone-dependent.
(9) However, the role of the REM sleep myosis and vegetative manifestations are discussed regarding the determination of eye pain.
(10) Fifteen patients were treated for recurrent disease (13 with endolymphatic stromal myosis, 2 with endometrial stromal sarcoma).
(11) Homologous mixed mesodermal tumors were the most frequent (41%) followed by leiomyosarcoma (26%), heterologous mixed mesodermal tumor (18.3%), stromal sarcoma (12%), and endolymphatic stromal myosis (3%).
(12) The Riley-Day syndrome is characterized by a dysfunction of the autonomous nervous system, sensory disturbances, neurological disorders, psychical anomalies and important ophthalmological symptoms, such as absence of tears, corneal anaesthesia, keratinized conjunctiva and cornea; myosis after instillation of methacholine.
(13) The patients with endolymphatic stromal myosis had infiltrative tumors that behaved as low-grade cancers with good responses to therapy.
(14) Intermediate filament composition was studied in the following endometrial stromal tumors: low-grade stromal sarcoma (endolymphatic stromal myosis), high-grade stromal sarcoma with an associated adenocarcinoma (collision tumor), diffuse clear cell stromal sarcoma and a mesodermal mixed tumor (carcinosarcoma).
(15) should be distinguished on the one hand from endolymphatic stromal myosis, and on the other hand from sarcoma of the endometrial stroma.
(16) Stromal endolymphatic myosis is regarded as a mixed homologous tumour with a prominent proliferation of the stroma and a varying degree of proliferation of glandlike structures and vessels.
(17) Vegetative effects (mainly myosis and swallowing) were obtained from a medial cortical strip.
(18) This report describes a case of recurrent and metastatic endolymphatic stromal myosis (ESM), which showed good response to progestin therapy.
(19) We describe a case of endolymphatic stromal myosis (ESM) in which the lesion presented uniquely as recurrent frond-like cervical polyps.
(20) The surgical management for recurrent endolymphatic stromal myosis metastatic to the inferior vena cava is described.