Incarcerated giant uterine leiomyoma within an incisional hernia: a case report

Uterine leiomyomas presenting as incarcerated or strangulated hernias in surgical emergencies are extremely rare and should be considered in the differential diagnosis in patients with known uterine fibroids and an irreducible ventral abdominal wall hernia. Detailed history and multidisciplinary app...

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Autores principales: Exarchos, Georgios, Vlahos, Nikolaos, Dellaportas, Dionysios, Metaxa, Linda, Theodosopoulos, Theodosios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1199
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author Exarchos, Georgios
Vlahos, Nikolaos
Dellaportas, Dionysios
Metaxa, Linda
Theodosopoulos, Theodosios
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description Uterine leiomyomas presenting as incarcerated or strangulated hernias in surgical emergencies are extremely rare and should be considered in the differential diagnosis in patients with known uterine fibroids and an irreducible ventral abdominal wall hernia. Detailed history and multidisciplinary approach optimize the diagnosis and decision making toward surgical treatment.
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spelling pubmed-56762722017-11-17 Incarcerated giant uterine leiomyoma within an incisional hernia: a case report Exarchos, Georgios Vlahos, Nikolaos Dellaportas, Dionysios Metaxa, Linda Theodosopoulos, Theodosios Clin Case Rep Case Reports Uterine leiomyomas presenting as incarcerated or strangulated hernias in surgical emergencies are extremely rare and should be considered in the differential diagnosis in patients with known uterine fibroids and an irreducible ventral abdominal wall hernia. Detailed history and multidisciplinary approach optimize the diagnosis and decision making toward surgical treatment. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5676272/ /pubmed/29152282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1199 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Exarchos, Georgios
Vlahos, Nikolaos
Dellaportas, Dionysios
Metaxa, Linda
Theodosopoulos, Theodosios
Incarcerated giant uterine leiomyoma within an incisional hernia: a case report
title Incarcerated giant uterine leiomyoma within an incisional hernia: a case report
title_full Incarcerated giant uterine leiomyoma within an incisional hernia: a case report
title_fullStr Incarcerated giant uterine leiomyoma within an incisional hernia: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Incarcerated giant uterine leiomyoma within an incisional hernia: a case report
title_short Incarcerated giant uterine leiomyoma within an incisional hernia: a case report
title_sort incarcerated giant uterine leiomyoma within an incisional hernia: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1199
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