Solitary anterior abdominal wall leiomyoma in a 31-year-old multipara woman: a case report

BACKGROUND: Anterior abdominal wall fibroid are uncommon and could be a cause of pain and discomfort. Very few cases have been reported in the literature but none in our region. CASE PRESENTATION: We present an uncommon case of a 31 year old para 2+2 trader from the Itsekiri tribe of the Niger Delta...

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Autores principales: Igberase, Gabriel O, Mabiaku, Tagbire O, Ebeigbe, Peter N, Abedi, Harrison O
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19183505
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-113
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author Igberase, Gabriel O
Mabiaku, Tagbire O
Ebeigbe, Peter N
Abedi, Harrison O
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Ebeigbe, Peter N
Abedi, Harrison O
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description BACKGROUND: Anterior abdominal wall fibroid are uncommon and could be a cause of pain and discomfort. Very few cases have been reported in the literature but none in our region. CASE PRESENTATION: We present an uncommon case of a 31 year old para 2+2 trader from the Itsekiri tribe of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria who presented with a one year history of a periumbilcal mass, had surgical removal of the mass and histology revealed leiomyoma. CONCLUSION: Abdominal wall fibroid is a good differential diagnosis to be considered in any woman of reproductive age with an anterior abdominal mass and previous uterine surgery, including laparoscopic surgeries.
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spelling pubmed-26403482009-02-12 Solitary anterior abdominal wall leiomyoma in a 31-year-old multipara woman: a case report Igberase, Gabriel O Mabiaku, Tagbire O Ebeigbe, Peter N Abedi, Harrison O Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Anterior abdominal wall fibroid are uncommon and could be a cause of pain and discomfort. Very few cases have been reported in the literature but none in our region. CASE PRESENTATION: We present an uncommon case of a 31 year old para 2+2 trader from the Itsekiri tribe of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria who presented with a one year history of a periumbilcal mass, had surgical removal of the mass and histology revealed leiomyoma. CONCLUSION: Abdominal wall fibroid is a good differential diagnosis to be considered in any woman of reproductive age with an anterior abdominal mass and previous uterine surgery, including laparoscopic surgeries. BioMed Central 2009-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2640348/ /pubmed/19183505 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-113 Text en Copyright ©2009 Igberase 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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Igberase, Gabriel O
Mabiaku, Tagbire O
Ebeigbe, Peter N
Abedi, Harrison O
Solitary anterior abdominal wall leiomyoma in a 31-year-old multipara woman: a case report
title Solitary anterior abdominal wall leiomyoma in a 31-year-old multipara woman: a case report
title_full Solitary anterior abdominal wall leiomyoma in a 31-year-old multipara woman: a case report
title_fullStr Solitary anterior abdominal wall leiomyoma in a 31-year-old multipara woman: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Solitary anterior abdominal wall leiomyoma in a 31-year-old multipara woman: a case report
title_short Solitary anterior abdominal wall leiomyoma in a 31-year-old multipara woman: a case report
title_sort solitary anterior abdominal wall leiomyoma in a 31-year-old multipara woman: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19183505
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-113
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