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Huge Benign Ovarian Cystic Teratoma in a Patient with a History of Hansen's Disease
Mature ovarian cystic teratomas are common benign ovarian neoplasm derived from germ cells. With increasing availability of ultrasound services even in developing countries, the diagnosis of benign ovarian tumour is made earlier and the size of the ovarian tumour at diagnosis is relatively small. It...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158426/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25210635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/345767 |
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author | Okonta, Patrick I. Mofon, Chukwuemeke |
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description | Mature ovarian cystic teratomas are common benign ovarian neoplasm derived from germ cells. With increasing availability of ultrasound services even in developing countries, the diagnosis of benign ovarian tumour is made earlier and the size of the ovarian tumour at diagnosis is relatively small. It is unusual to find an ovarian cystic teratoma larger than 10 cm. We report a huge mature ovarian cystic teratoma in a multipara with a history of Hansen's disease. We conclude that, in circumstances where women have restricted access to health care, the unusual finding of mature ovarian cystic teratoma larger than 10 cm is possible due to delayed presentation for diagnosis and treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-41584262014-09-10 Huge Benign Ovarian Cystic Teratoma in a Patient with a History of Hansen's Disease Okonta, Patrick I. Mofon, Chukwuemeke Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Mature ovarian cystic teratomas are common benign ovarian neoplasm derived from germ cells. With increasing availability of ultrasound services even in developing countries, the diagnosis of benign ovarian tumour is made earlier and the size of the ovarian tumour at diagnosis is relatively small. It is unusual to find an ovarian cystic teratoma larger than 10 cm. We report a huge mature ovarian cystic teratoma in a multipara with a history of Hansen's disease. We conclude that, in circumstances where women have restricted access to health care, the unusual finding of mature ovarian cystic teratoma larger than 10 cm is possible due to delayed presentation for diagnosis and treatment. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4158426/ /pubmed/25210635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/345767 Text en Copyright © 2014 P. I. Okonta and C. Mofon. 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Okonta, Patrick I. Mofon, Chukwuemeke Huge Benign Ovarian Cystic Teratoma in a Patient with a History of Hansen's Disease |
title | Huge Benign Ovarian Cystic Teratoma in a Patient with a History of Hansen's Disease |
title_full | Huge Benign Ovarian Cystic Teratoma in a Patient with a History of Hansen's Disease |
title_fullStr | Huge Benign Ovarian Cystic Teratoma in a Patient with a History of Hansen's Disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Huge Benign Ovarian Cystic Teratoma in a Patient with a History of Hansen's Disease |
title_short | Huge Benign Ovarian Cystic Teratoma in a Patient with a History of Hansen's Disease |
title_sort | huge benign ovarian cystic teratoma in a patient with a history of hansen's disease |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158426/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25210635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/345767 |
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