Overview of comprehensive knowledge about fibroids

With the improvement of living standards, people have irregular diets, often stay up late, have excessive work pressure and other reasons. Fibroids have become a common disease in daily life. It is also a stubborn disease that has troubled patients for many years. Next, let's learn about the comprehensive knowledge overview of fibroids?

According to the age and location of onset, the main types of tumors include juvenile fibromatosis, cervical fibromatosis, infantile fibromatosis, infantile myofibromatosis, and lipofibromatosis. The age of onset is mostly between 30 and 50 years old, and it is also common in children and adolescents. Tumors can occur in large muscles anywhere in the body, with the rectus abdominis and the aponeurosis of the adjacent muscles of the abdominal wall being the most common, and are more common during pregnancy and late pregnancy. Those outside the abdominal wall are more common in men, and are more common in the scapula, thigh, and buttocks.

Fibroids are a relatively common benign tumor of well-differentiated fibrous connective tissue. They are more common in young people, solitary, mostly millimeters to several centimeters, and painless. They are often discovered accidentally, are hard, have clear boundaries, are movable, and grow slowly. They can occur in subcutaneous tissues of various parts of the body. For example, tumors that grow in the breasts of young women and are mainly glandular are called fibroadenomas, and tumors that grow in muscles with muscle tissue are called fibromyomas. When they appear multiple times, they are called tumor-like lesions, which are called fibromatosis. For example, congenital systemic fibromatosis is "benign" in morphology, and new lesions that appear in important organs can also lead to death. If they grow in the compressed area of ​​the sacrum, they will grow rapidly, erode, ulcerate, bleed, and become malignant. Desmoplastic fibroids (ligament-like tumors) that grow in the rectus abdominis of the abdominal wall, neck, trunk, and limbs are more common in women. If they are not radically removed, they are very likely to recur, but they do not metastasize, so they are called borderline tumors.

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Treatment should be prompt and thorough surgical resection, including a wide area around the affected tissue, and sometimes the entire affected muscle needs to be removed. Only in very rare cases, amputation is forced due to its local invasiveness. Radiotherapy may be effective for local control of the disease and can be used after conservative surgery. Endocrine therapy has also been successful in some cases, such as taking tamoxifen. Young patients and large tumors have a higher recurrence rate.