Peritoneal leiomyomatosis (leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata): a clinicopathologic study of 20 cases with ultrastructural observations.

SummaryPeritoneal leiomyomatosis (PL) occurs in women of reproductive age. Of 20 women with PL in this study, 10 were pregnant or immediately postpartum, and 7 were taking oral contraceptive steroids. Only three of the 20 women were not pregnant or taking exogenous hormones. All PL nodules were comp