Fibroid degeneration in a postmenopausal woman presenting as an acute abdomen

Uterine fibroid, one of the most common tumors in women, is estrogen dependent, which commonly regresses after menopause. Fibroid degeneration after menopause, therefore, is rare. Here the authors report a case of 56-year-old postmenopausal woman who presented with acute abdominal pain, low grade fe...

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Autores principales: Shrestha, Rajesh, Khanal, Raju, Aryal, Madan Raj, Pathak, Ranjan, Karmacharya, Paras, Naqi, Muniba, Murukutla, Srujitha, Bhatt, Vijaya Raj, Gottesman, Aaron
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25656665
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v5.25917
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author Shrestha, Rajesh
Khanal, Raju
Aryal, Madan Raj
Pathak, Ranjan
Karmacharya, Paras
Naqi, Muniba
Murukutla, Srujitha
Bhatt, Vijaya Raj
Gottesman, Aaron
author_facet Shrestha, Rajesh
Khanal, Raju
Aryal, Madan Raj
Pathak, Ranjan
Karmacharya, Paras
Naqi, Muniba
Murukutla, Srujitha
Bhatt, Vijaya Raj
Gottesman, Aaron
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description Uterine fibroid, one of the most common tumors in women, is estrogen dependent, which commonly regresses after menopause. Fibroid degeneration after menopause, therefore, is rare. Here the authors report a case of 56-year-old postmenopausal woman who presented with acute abdominal pain, low grade fever, and leukocytosis as a result of fibroid degeneration.
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spelling pubmed-43188192015-02-23 Fibroid degeneration in a postmenopausal woman presenting as an acute abdomen Shrestha, Rajesh Khanal, Raju Aryal, Madan Raj Pathak, Ranjan Karmacharya, Paras Naqi, Muniba Murukutla, Srujitha Bhatt, Vijaya Raj Gottesman, Aaron J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report Uterine fibroid, one of the most common tumors in women, is estrogen dependent, which commonly regresses after menopause. Fibroid degeneration after menopause, therefore, is rare. Here the authors report a case of 56-year-old postmenopausal woman who presented with acute abdominal pain, low grade fever, and leukocytosis as a result of fibroid degeneration. Co-Action Publishing 2015-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4318819/ /pubmed/25656665 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v5.25917 Text en © 2015 Rajesh Shrestha et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pathak, Ranjan
Karmacharya, Paras
Naqi, Muniba
Murukutla, Srujitha
Bhatt, Vijaya Raj
Gottesman, Aaron
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title_short Fibroid degeneration in a postmenopausal woman presenting as an acute abdomen
title_sort fibroid degeneration in a postmenopausal woman presenting as an acute abdomen
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25656665
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v5.25917
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