Pedunculated uterine leiomyoma mimicking abdominal mass: a case report

A 48-year-old woman presented with abdominal fullness and a palpable "mass" in the left lower quadrant. Ultrasonography showed a large, rounded, hypoechoic mass. Contrast-enhanced helical CT of the abdomen demonstrated a well-circumscribed, heterogeneously but vividly enhancing mass. The u...

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Autores principales: Spanoudaki, Athina, Oikonomou, Anastasia, Dimitrova, Krasimira, Prassopoulos, Panos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2588583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-315
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author Spanoudaki, Athina
Oikonomou, Anastasia
Dimitrova, Krasimira
Prassopoulos, Panos
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Prassopoulos, Panos
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description A 48-year-old woman presented with abdominal fullness and a palpable "mass" in the left lower quadrant. Ultrasonography showed a large, rounded, hypoechoic mass. Contrast-enhanced helical CT of the abdomen demonstrated a well-circumscribed, heterogeneously but vividly enhancing mass. The uterus had a leiomyomatous configuration on CT. Uterus and mass revealed the same enhancing pattern. Thin section CT revealed a long, thin stalk connecting the mass with the body of the uterus. Surgical removal of both uterus and the mass confirmed the diagnosis of a pedunculated subserosal leiomyoma originating from a leiomyomatous uterus.
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spelling pubmed-25885832008-11-28 Pedunculated uterine leiomyoma mimicking abdominal mass: a case report Spanoudaki, Athina Oikonomou, Anastasia Dimitrova, Krasimira Prassopoulos, Panos Cases J Case Report A 48-year-old woman presented with abdominal fullness and a palpable "mass" in the left lower quadrant. Ultrasonography showed a large, rounded, hypoechoic mass. Contrast-enhanced helical CT of the abdomen demonstrated a well-circumscribed, heterogeneously but vividly enhancing mass. The uterus had a leiomyomatous configuration on CT. Uterus and mass revealed the same enhancing pattern. Thin section CT revealed a long, thin stalk connecting the mass with the body of the uterus. Surgical removal of both uterus and the mass confirmed the diagnosis of a pedunculated subserosal leiomyoma originating from a leiomyomatous uterus. BioMed Central 2008-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2588583/ /pubmed/19014628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-315 Text en Copyright © 2008 Spanoudaki 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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Spanoudaki, Athina
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2588583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-315
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