Age, menopause, gravidity, parity, maximum diameter of IVL, uterine leiomyomas, involvement of uterine/extrauterine blood vessels, methods of operation, ovariectomy or not, Ki-67 index, and mitotic figures were not associated with postoperative recurrence of IVL (P > 0.05) (Table 4). This evidence concerns the gene MKI67 and uterine corpus leiomyoma.