Intra-peritoneal leiomyoma of the round ligament in a patient with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome

BACKGROUND: The occurrence of an extra-uterine leiomyoma, arising from the intra-peritoneal portion of the round ligament in a lady with Müllerian agenesis diagnosed at the age of forty is extremely rare. We report a case of this rare combination in a Middle Eastern woman. CASE: A 40 years old lady,...

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Autores principales: Salem Wehbe, G, Bitar, R, Zreik, T, Samaha, M, Walter, C, Sleiman, Z
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universa Press 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5303701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28210483
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author Salem Wehbe, G
Bitar, R
Zreik, T
Samaha, M
Walter, C
Sleiman, Z
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Zreik, T
Samaha, M
Walter, C
Sleiman, Z
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description BACKGROUND: The occurrence of an extra-uterine leiomyoma, arising from the intra-peritoneal portion of the round ligament in a lady with Müllerian agenesis diagnosed at the age of forty is extremely rare. We report a case of this rare combination in a Middle Eastern woman. CASE: A 40 years old lady, primarily amenorrheic, presented to our clinic for an infertility consultation. The work- up showed features suggestive of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome with a leiomyoma arising from the intra-peritoneal part of the round ligament.
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spelling pubmed-53037012017-02-16 Intra-peritoneal leiomyoma of the round ligament in a patient with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome Salem Wehbe, G Bitar, R Zreik, T Samaha, M Walter, C Sleiman, Z Facts Views Vis Obgyn Case Report BACKGROUND: The occurrence of an extra-uterine leiomyoma, arising from the intra-peritoneal portion of the round ligament in a lady with Müllerian agenesis diagnosed at the age of forty is extremely rare. We report a case of this rare combination in a Middle Eastern woman. CASE: A 40 years old lady, primarily amenorrheic, presented to our clinic for an infertility consultation. The work- up showed features suggestive of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome with a leiomyoma arising from the intra-peritoneal part of the round ligament. Universa Press 2016-12 2017-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5303701/ /pubmed/28210483 Text en Copyright © 2017 Facts, Views & Vision http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Salem Wehbe, G
Bitar, R
Zreik, T
Samaha, M
Walter, C
Sleiman, Z
Intra-peritoneal leiomyoma of the round ligament in a patient with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome
title Intra-peritoneal leiomyoma of the round ligament in a patient with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome
title_full Intra-peritoneal leiomyoma of the round ligament in a patient with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome
title_fullStr Intra-peritoneal leiomyoma of the round ligament in a patient with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Intra-peritoneal leiomyoma of the round ligament in a patient with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome
title_short Intra-peritoneal leiomyoma of the round ligament in a patient with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome
title_sort intra-peritoneal leiomyoma of the round ligament in a patient with mayer-rokitansky-küster-hauser (mrkh) syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5303701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28210483
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