Fibroid in the buttock: an unexpected diagnosis.
Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) are very common lesions with well-described imaging features. We present an unusual case of a fibroid which presented in the buttock with atypical clinical and imaging features in a woman who had had a previous hysterectomy. Despite extensive imaging and biopsies, the diagnosis was not suspected until pathological evaluation of the resected mass. The differential diagnosis for such a lesion, and the imaging and pathological features of fibroids, including atypical and parasitic leiomyomas, are discussed.
Keogh
Ciaran F
CF
Department of Radiology, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center, 899 West 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9, Canada.
Torreggiani
William C
WC
Gee
Richard
R
O'Connell
John X
JX
Munk
Peter L
PL
D002081:Buttocks; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed