Failure of ultrasound to diagnose a giant ovarian cyst: a case report

Ultrasonography is the method of choice in the diagnosis of ovarian cysts. In this case report, a cyst of enormous volume (>35 litres) was limiting the application of ultrasound techniques giving the false impression of ascites. A 55-year-old woman was finally diagnosed as having a giant ovarian...

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Autores principales: Mikos, Themistoklis, Tabakoudis, George P, Pados, George, Eugenidis, Nikos P, Assimakopoulos, Efstratios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829881
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6909
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author Mikos, Themistoklis
Tabakoudis, George P
Pados, George
Eugenidis, Nikos P
Assimakopoulos, Efstratios
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Tabakoudis, George P
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description Ultrasonography is the method of choice in the diagnosis of ovarian cysts. In this case report, a cyst of enormous volume (>35 litres) was limiting the application of ultrasound techniques giving the false impression of ascites. A 55-year-old woman was finally diagnosed as having a giant ovarian mucosal-serosal cystadenoma of borderline potential after undergoing a total abdominal hysterectomy with salpingo-oophorectomy and excision of the cyst. In the literature, similar conditions have been described with the term ‘empty abdomen’.
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spelling pubmed-27401172009-10-14 Failure of ultrasound to diagnose a giant ovarian cyst: a case report Mikos, Themistoklis Tabakoudis, George P Pados, George Eugenidis, Nikos P Assimakopoulos, Efstratios Cases J Case report Ultrasonography is the method of choice in the diagnosis of ovarian cysts. In this case report, a cyst of enormous volume (>35 litres) was limiting the application of ultrasound techniques giving the false impression of ascites. A 55-year-old woman was finally diagnosed as having a giant ovarian mucosal-serosal cystadenoma of borderline potential after undergoing a total abdominal hysterectomy with salpingo-oophorectomy and excision of the cyst. In the literature, similar conditions have been described with the term ‘empty abdomen’. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2740117/ /pubmed/19829881 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6909 Text en © 2009 Mikos et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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