Interesting case of ovarian sarcoidosis: The value of multi disciplinary team working

BACKGROUND: Sarcoidosis of the genital tract is a rare condition. Ovarian manifestation of this disease is rarer still. CASE PRESENTATION: The case presented here represents ovarian manifestation of sarcoidosis. At the point of referral to our hospital, based on computerised tomography (CT) ovarian...

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Autores principales: Wuntakal, Rekha, Bharathan, Rasiah, Rockall, Andrea, Jeyarajah, Arjun
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17391534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-38
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author Wuntakal, Rekha
Bharathan, Rasiah
Rockall, Andrea
Jeyarajah, Arjun
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description BACKGROUND: Sarcoidosis of the genital tract is a rare condition. Ovarian manifestation of this disease is rarer still. CASE PRESENTATION: The case presented here represents ovarian manifestation of sarcoidosis. At the point of referral to our hospital, based on computerised tomography (CT) ovarian carcinoma was a differential diagnosis. Further magnetic resonance imaging along with CT guided biopsy aided by laboratory study supported a diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Patient responded to medical management by a multidisciplinary team. CONCLUSION: The case shows the importance of FNAC and biopsy in case or ovarian masses and multi disciplinary team approach to management.
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spelling pubmed-18478202007-04-06 Interesting case of ovarian sarcoidosis: The value of multi disciplinary team working Wuntakal, Rekha Bharathan, Rasiah Rockall, Andrea Jeyarajah, Arjun World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Sarcoidosis of the genital tract is a rare condition. Ovarian manifestation of this disease is rarer still. CASE PRESENTATION: The case presented here represents ovarian manifestation of sarcoidosis. At the point of referral to our hospital, based on computerised tomography (CT) ovarian carcinoma was a differential diagnosis. Further magnetic resonance imaging along with CT guided biopsy aided by laboratory study supported a diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Patient responded to medical management by a multidisciplinary team. CONCLUSION: The case shows the importance of FNAC and biopsy in case or ovarian masses and multi disciplinary team approach to management. BioMed Central 2007-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC1847820/ /pubmed/17391534 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-38 Text en Copyright © 2007 Wuntakal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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