What are the early symptoms of fibroids

Fibroids are common in our daily lives. When symptoms appear, timely treatment is necessary. Often, some fibroid patients do not seek timely treatment, thinking that it will not pose a threat to the body. If this is not treated for a long time, it will cause harm to physical health. Let us understand the early symptoms of fibroids?

First, let us understand what is fibroid?

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.

Next, let’s look at the early symptoms of fibroids.

The skin color of the tumor surface is pink or brown, with scattered skin cafe au lait pigment spots. This spot is often the earliest manifestation of the disease, starting in childhood, often on the trunk, especially on the waist and back, several centimeters in size, brown spots, irregular in shape, with clear boundaries.

The tumors are multiple, mainly distributed in the trunk and limbs, and can also be distributed inside the brain. The number ranges from a few to thousands. The size ranges from a few millimeters to a few centimeters. A single tumor can be as small as 1 gram and as large as more than 100 kilograms. Small tumors are hemispherical in shape, while large tumors are amorphous or pedunculated. The mass feels like dough when palpated, and there may be some harder solid masses in it. The tumor increases in size with age, develops more slowly in adults, and can grow into a giant or slender type.

The tumor body is usually without a capsule, or even if it has one, it is incomplete. There is proliferation of various components of the nerve tissue in the tumor, among which the proliferation of nerve sheath cells is the most obvious. In addition to a large amount of fibrous tissue proliferation in the tumor tissue, there are also thick cord-like nerves. The skin lesions of elephantiasis-like multiple neurofibromas are often distributed along the nerve trunks, multiple, and are soft nodules and plaques in the skin and subcutaneous. In giant neurofibromas, there are a large number of supply arterial networks and swollen return veins. Patients with giant tumors can lose their ability to move, and can also suffer from systemic malnutrition.