Case Report
Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma
Beatriz Sastre* and Emilio Valbuena
Department of Radiology, Hospital General Universitario de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Spain
- *Corresponding Author:
- Beatriz Sastre
Department of Radiology
Hospital General Universitario de Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Spain
Tel: 0034666381055
E-mail: beasastre@hotmail.com
Received Date: April 24, 2017; Accepted Date: May 11, 2017; Published Date: May 16, 2017
Citation: Sastre B, Valbuena E (2017) Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma. OMICS J Radiol S2:001. doi: 10.4172/2167-7964.S2-001
Copyright: © 2017 Sastre B, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma (BML) is a rare disease characterized by proliferation of uterine smooth muscle tissue in extrauterine locations. The lungs are the most affected organ. The patient type is a female in the pre/ perimenopausal age that has been gone through a myomectomy several years before when during a routine chest roentgenogram multiple pulmonary shadows are noticed. We report a case of a 54-years-old female who presented a chest X-ray with multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules during a health checkup. She had no symptomatology and personal history just included uterine leiomyomectomy of the uterus 16 years before. A contrast-enhanced CT confirmed the nodules within a normal interstitium. A biopsy was performed and histopathological examination showed characteristics of smooth muscle cell differentiation giving the diagnosis of BML. The management strategy decided was just radiological follow-up and she is stable ever since.
