Uterine Fibroids and Adenomyosis: Imaging and Treatment

Lindsay Yang, Rakesh Navuluri
In: Contemporary Diagnostic Radiology · 2021 · vol. 44(22) , pp. 1–7 · doi:10.1097/01.cdr.0000795720.51837.27 · W3202472487
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Uterine fibroids are common benign smooth muscle tumors that increase in incidence with age up to menopause, affecting a majority of women, particularly Black women, by age 50.

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Uterine fibroids, or leiomyomas or myomas, are benign tumors that arise from the smooth muscle of the uterus. Fibroids affect most women, up to 80% of black women, and nearly 70% of white women in the United States by the age of 50 years,1 and the incidence of fibroids increases with age up to menopause.2

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