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Resolution of a Leg Ulcer after Hysterectomy for Huge Uterine Myoma
Author(s) -
Ohtani Tomoyuki,
Tanita Muneo,
Tagami Hachiro
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1346-8138
pISSN - 0385-2407
DOI - 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2003.tb00427.x
Subject(s) - medicine , myoma , hysterectomy , pelvis , surgery , uterine myoma , vein , uterus , radiology
Venous ulcers are the most common type of leg ulcers, accounting for 80% to 90% of cases. We report a large, therapy‐resistant ulcer present for three months on the right leg of a 44‐year‐old woman who also had a huge uterine myoma. Without any other treatment, the leg ulcer regressed spontaneously three months after a hysterectomy for the uterine myoma that had been demonstrated in a CT image to be compressing the right common iliac vein in the pelvis. Uterine myoma can become the cause of venous insufficiency of the leg, when it is big enough to disturb the blood circulation in the pelvis in individuals who have incompetent perforating veins.