The clinical symptoms and the appearance of fibroids
depend on their position, size, and number. The symptoms are usually
most pronounced when the fibroids are submucosal or prolapse into
the endometrial canal. Pain and vaginal bleeding are then common,
often occurring irregularly and unrelated to the menstrual cycles.
The role of uterine leiomyomas as causative factor of sterility
is controversial. Submucosal myomas, in particular, can interfere
with fertility and be associated to obstetric complications as
abruption of placenta, post-partum metrorrhagia and puerperal
sepsis.
With Doppler ultrasonography : Polyps typically contained a single
feeding vessel, whereas fibroids had several vessels, which arose
from the inner myometrium.
Differential
diagnosis
* polyp 
* Haematma
* Adenomyosis
* Endometrial Carcinoma
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of endometrial polyps and submucosal fibroids. J Ultrasound Med.
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submucosal leiomyoma after administration of a gonadotropin-releasing
hormone agonist. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2001 Jun;96(2):223-5.
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