Benign Tumors, Pathology of the Broad Ligament and Other Uterine Ligaments

This encyclopedia entry reviews benign neoplasms arising in the broad ligament and other uterine ligaments, focusing on serous cystadenoma and leiomyoma. It describes serous cystadenoma as the most common Müllerian-derived epithelial tumor in this location, typically unilateral cysts up to 13 cm, with patients presenting either incidentally during surgery for other gynecologic disorders or with a pelvic mass; it also notes key microscopic differences from nonneoplastic serous cysts via a thick, cellular stromal wall, and states that the tumors are benign and treated surgically. For leiomyoma, it defines a benign smooth muscle tumor arising from the broad and other uterine ligaments but provides no additional methods or outcomes in the provided text, and the entry offers no clinically relevant molecular features. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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