Inguinal Endometriosis: An Uncommon Differential Diagnosis as an Inguinal Tumour

Inguinal endometriosis can present as a rare tumor when it occurs outside the abdomen and pelvis. We present a patient with a painful tumor in the right inguinal region, where its diagnosis was made before the operation. This enabled a conservative excisional surgery to be performed. The literature...

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Autores principales: Wong, Wu Shun Felix, Lim, Chi Eung Danforn, Luo, Xiping
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21637357
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/272159
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author Wong, Wu Shun Felix
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Luo, Xiping
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description Inguinal endometriosis can present as a rare tumor when it occurs outside the abdomen and pelvis. We present a patient with a painful tumor in the right inguinal region, where its diagnosis was made before the operation. This enabled a conservative excisional surgery to be performed. The literature is reviewed and the diagnosis as well as management are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-31025862011-06-02 Inguinal Endometriosis: An Uncommon Differential Diagnosis as an Inguinal Tumour Wong, Wu Shun Felix Lim, Chi Eung Danforn Luo, Xiping ISRN Obstet Gynecol Case Report Inguinal endometriosis can present as a rare tumor when it occurs outside the abdomen and pelvis. We present a patient with a painful tumor in the right inguinal region, where its diagnosis was made before the operation. This enabled a conservative excisional surgery to be performed. The literature is reviewed and the diagnosis as well as management are discussed. International Scholarly Research Network 2011 2010-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3102586/ /pubmed/21637357 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/272159 Text en Copyright © 2011 Wu Shun Felix Wong et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wong, Wu Shun Felix
Lim, Chi Eung Danforn
Luo, Xiping
Inguinal Endometriosis: An Uncommon Differential Diagnosis as an Inguinal Tumour
title Inguinal Endometriosis: An Uncommon Differential Diagnosis as an Inguinal Tumour
title_full Inguinal Endometriosis: An Uncommon Differential Diagnosis as an Inguinal Tumour
title_fullStr Inguinal Endometriosis: An Uncommon Differential Diagnosis as an Inguinal Tumour
title_full_unstemmed Inguinal Endometriosis: An Uncommon Differential Diagnosis as an Inguinal Tumour
title_short Inguinal Endometriosis: An Uncommon Differential Diagnosis as an Inguinal Tumour
title_sort inguinal endometriosis: an uncommon differential diagnosis as an inguinal tumour
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21637357
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/272159
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