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Ive been diagnosed with likely 7cm subserosal uterine fibroid with fatty degeneration on imaging, not overweight, pre menopausal, what causes this fatty degeneration and is there malignancy risk?
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The fibroid degenerates when it is too big for the blood supply and fatty degeneration does not carry risk of malignancy.
Answered 6/12/2022
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Changes taking place in a fibroid like fatty degeneration are unpredictable and not known. The malignancy risk is very very small and cant be predicted
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