Torsion of non-gravid uterus with ovarian cyst - an extremely rare case

Torsion of nongravid uterus is rare. Cases reported have occured during pregnancy. We report a case of a patient with acute abdominal pain. The patient showed a voluminous mass situated in the abdomen and noncontiguous to the uterus by ultrasound scan. Laparotomy confirmed the diagnosis of cystic ov...

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Autores principales: Havaldar, Nusrat, Ashok, Kiran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4231319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25400862
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.18.95.1430
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description Torsion of nongravid uterus is rare. Cases reported have occured during pregnancy. We report a case of a patient with acute abdominal pain. The patient showed a voluminous mass situated in the abdomen and noncontiguous to the uterus by ultrasound scan. Laparotomy confirmed the diagnosis of cystic ovarian mass with torsion of uterus.
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spelling pubmed-42313192014-11-14 Torsion of non-gravid uterus with ovarian cyst - an extremely rare case Havaldar, Nusrat Ashok, Kiran Pan Afr Med J Case Report Torsion of nongravid uterus is rare. Cases reported have occured during pregnancy. We report a case of a patient with acute abdominal pain. The patient showed a voluminous mass situated in the abdomen and noncontiguous to the uterus by ultrasound scan. Laparotomy confirmed the diagnosis of cystic ovarian mass with torsion of uterus. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4231319/ /pubmed/25400862 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.18.95.1430 Text en © Nusrat Havaldar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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title Torsion of non-gravid uterus with ovarian cyst - an extremely rare case
title_full Torsion of non-gravid uterus with ovarian cyst - an extremely rare case
title_fullStr Torsion of non-gravid uterus with ovarian cyst - an extremely rare case
title_full_unstemmed Torsion of non-gravid uterus with ovarian cyst - an extremely rare case
title_short Torsion of non-gravid uterus with ovarian cyst - an extremely rare case
title_sort torsion of non-gravid uterus with ovarian cyst - an extremely rare case
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4231319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25400862
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