title: [Changes in uterine myoma dimentions during pregnancy].
abstract: The purpose of this study is to follow up the changes in the myoma dimentions during pregnancy (1st, 2nd and 3rd trimester). The study is prospective and includes 90 pregnant women with myoma during the period 2002-2006. If more than one myoma was diagnosed, the largest one was considered to be representative. Our data show that the combination of myoma and pregnancy is more frequent with women over the age of 30 and it is more frequent with nullipares (63.2%). Single myomas were more frequent with 58%, 48% of the myomas were intramural and 62% were located in the uterine corpus. Our study shows that during the first trimester there is no change in the myomas dimentions in 35%-43% of the cases and during the second trimester there is no change of the myona dimentions in 50% of the cases. During the third trimester there are only 5% of the myomas that change their dimentions. We conclude, that the myomas, that enlarge during the first trimester, usually enlarge during the second trimester as well. We found no decrease of the myoma dimentions during the third trimester.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bosev
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dimitrov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011264:Pregnancy Trimesters; D011446:Prospective Studies; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*