title: A rare spectrum of lesions encountered in fibroid uterus: histopathological report.
abstract: Symplasmic or atypical leiomyoma and lipoleiomyoma are two very rare morphological variants of leiomyoma of the uterus. Both the tumours show a benign behavior like the classical leiomyoma. But differentiated from the classical leiomyoma by presence of bizarre cellular pattern with paucity of mitosis and presence of mature lipocytes within a leiomyoma respectively. We report one case each of these variants in two routine fibroid uterus specimens of two different patients, as they can be misdiagnosed as leiomyosarcoma and well-differentiated liposarcoma respectively, by inexperienced pathologists.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Sri Amritsar. gauryanheerak@gmail.com
authors.forename: Shalini
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kashyap
authors.forename: Swaran
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaur
authors.forename: Devinder
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kaur
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged