PURPOSE To determine the prevalence of uterine leiomyomas, diagnosed by ultrasound, in a private health care setting located in the central eastern region of Portugal, and to explore the demographic and clinical factors related to diagnosis and symptomatology. PATIENTS AND METHODS The files of 624 patients attending a private clinic in Covilhã, Portugal, from January 2 to December 31, 2010 we...

The most frequently identified benign tumor in women is represented by the uterine fibroids with various symptoms: metrorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, anemia, pelvic pain. Nowadays because none of the approved medical treatments has proven able to completely eliminate uterine fibroids, surgery represents the main treatment strategy. Due to its contribution in the growth of leiomyomas, progesterone play...

Abnormal uterine bleeding, the most common symptom of gynecological disease, is defined as menorrhagia or metrorrhagia. The former term applies only to an excessive loss of blood during the menstrual period. This loss may be evidenced in one of several ways: by an excessive menstrual flow, by a prolongation of the flow beyond the usual time limits, by a too frequent recurrence of the flow, or b...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to devise a strategy to diagnose malign endometrial pathologies (adenocarcinoma or atypical hyperplasia) that minimizes the number of invasive tests done (hysteroscopy, aspiration biopsy or curettage) with no loss of its detection efficiency. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively studied the clinical histories of 779 postmenopausal women at the Universi...