Responsiveness to dopamine agonists; deterioration of hyperprolactinemia may be diagnostic for prolactin-producing uterine leiomyomas, although further research is required.
Human chorionic gonadotropin and alpha-subunit stimulated PRL secretion in [1] explant cultures of leiomyoma and myometrium from premenopausal women, [2] cultures of tissue treated in vivo with leuprolide acetate for both leiomyoma and myometrium, and [3] myometrium obtained from postmenopausal women.