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Question: TO TRY TO FIGURER OUT WHAT THEY WHERE THINKING I SAID BOY THAT IS LONGER AND BIGGER THEN NORMAL FOR MY UTERUS SHE SAID NOT IT IS JUST THE RIGHT SIZE. SO NOW I AM STUMPED IF IT WAS LARG ON CT AND NOT ULTRA SOUND DOSE IT MEAN IT STILL MIGHT BE FIBOID OR A CHANCE SOMETHING ELSE MAYBE WRONG, BUT WHEN SHE WENT TO CHECK MY CYST SHE BLOCKED THE SCREEN????? CONFUSED HELP TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK. AND WHAT IS FIBROID IN ENGLISH?
Answers: TO TRY TO FIGURER OUT WHAT THEY WHERE THINKING I SAID BOY THAT IS LONGER AND BIGGER THEN NORMAL FOR MY UTERUS SHE SAID NOT IT IS JUST THE RIGHT SIZE. SO NOW I AM STUMPED IF IT WAS LARG ON CT AND NOT ULTRA SOUND DOSE IT MEAN IT STILL MIGHT BE FIBOID OR A CHANCE SOMETHING ELSE MAYBE WRONG, BUT WHEN SHE WENT TO CHECK MY CYST SHE BLOCKED THE SCREEN????? CONFUSED HELP TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK. AND WHAT IS FIBROID IN ENGLISH?
What are fibroids?
Fibroid tumors are usually benign (non-cancerous) tumors found, most often, in the uterus of women in their 30's and 40's, although they occasionally develop on other organs which contain smooth muscle cells.
Fibroid tumors are solid tumors which are made of fibrous tissue, hence the name 'fibroid' tumor. Most often fibroids occur as multiple tumor masses which are slow-growing and often cause no symptoms.
The size of fibroids varies immensely among women and some are so small that a microscope is required to see them. However some women experience a single large fibroid tumor the size of a grapefruit or a fibroid which is so large it encompasses the entire abdominal area. Such large tumors can weigh as much as 50 pounds; the largest, reported, fibroid ever recorded weighed in at 140 pounds.
No one is sure why fibroid tumors develop, but some facts are quite clear-- they do not develop before the body begins producing estrogen during the onset of menstruation-- estrogen, such as in birth control pills and taken for menopausal symptoms, does cause fibroid tumors to grow and fibroid tumors will grow very quickly during pregnancy when the body is producing extra estrogen-- they often shrink and disappear after menopause when the body stops producing estrogen--a woman will almost never develop fibroid tumors after menopause.
The estrogen connection appears to be quite clear, although there are still some who doubt the role estrogen plays in the development of fibroid tumors because women with fibroids often have blood levels which reveal normal amounts of estrogen.
Types of Fibroid Tumors
Submucous Fibroids
These fibroids occur just below the lining of the uterus and can cause menstrual problems, including pain as they grow and move around the pelvic area.
Intramural Fibroids
A round fibroid most often within the uterine wall which can cause enlargement of the uterus as they grow.
Subserous Fibroids
This fibroid grows on the outer wall of the uterus and usually causes no symptoms until it grows large enough to interfere with other organs.
Pedunculated Fibroids
These fibroids develop when a subserous fibroid grows a peduncle (stalk), as they grow larger they may become twisted and cause severe pain.
Interligamentous Fibroid
A fibroid which grows sideways between the ligaments which support the uterus in the abdominal region. This type of fibroid is especially difficult to remove without the possibility of interfering with the blood supply or other organs.
Parasitic Fibroid
The rarest form of fibroid tumor occurs when a fibroid attaches itself to another organ.
Diagnosis of Fibroid Tumors
Diagnosis of fibroids is generally made by your physician during your annual gynecological exam when your physician feels a mass, they often are found when your physician is looking for something else or may never be discovered if you do not experience symptoms. However larger fibroids may make examination of your ovaries impossible if they grow near your ovaries.
An ultrasound scan is often ordered when such masses are felt by your physician to determine the cause of the mass, however some fibroids appear on sonograms as ovarian tumors and surgery is the only way an accurate diagnosis can be made.
Although most fibroids cause no symptoms, the estimated 25 percent of women who do have symptoms may have abnormal bleeding, pain during menstruation, and as the fibroid tumors grow larger, women will often experience a swollen abdomen.
Larger fibroids may cause frequent urination or an inability to control your bladder, either the ability to control the urge or in severe cases, a women may find that she is unable to urinate at all. If a fibroid extends towards a woman's back it may push on the bowels, causing constipation and a backache.
Yes, sometimes a CT Scan is good at picking up things that an ultrasound can't. I had this happen about 10 years ago where I had an ultrasound done a certain way and the cysts I had did not show up on it. It also happened at one time that the ultrasound did not show the position of my uterus (which it was tipped forward).
The CT Scan I had later that year not only showed the cysts on my ovaries (these were caused by a hormone imbalance I have) but it also showed the position of my uterus.
Another time I had an ultrasound done when my doctor felt a mass on my ovary (this was in 2002) and that ultrasound did not show the mass at all. When I had to have surgery in 2003 to check the status of another one of my health problems she found that it was a functional cyst. I asked my doctor at post-op how it was that the ultrasound missed the cyst. She said that sometimes that just happens.
In English a fibroid is called a fibroid by some doctors as well as patients but the technical term for a fibroid is a leiomyoma.
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