Intravenous leiomyomatosis with uterine leiomyoma and adenomyosis: a case presentation and brief comment on the histogenesis

This 2003 paper presents an additional case of uterine intravenous leiomyomatosis in which the patient also had a uterine leiomyoma and adenomyosis, and it provides a brief commentary on possible histogenesis. The authors note that about 139 prior English-language cases had been reported and that proposed origins include uterine leiomyoma tissue and/or vascular smooth muscle, but that the precise source remains unclear. In this case, the authors describe findings consistent with their own third histogenetic postulation. This paper is centrally about endometriosis and/or adenomyosis only insofar as it explicitly reports adenomyosis co-existing with uterine intravenous leiomyomatosis, though its main focus is histogenesis of intravenous leiomyomatosis.

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