Acute groin pain in pregnancy: a case of round ligament varicocele

Varicocities of the round ligament is a relatively uncommon condition. Almost all the cases in literature had been reported in pregnant patients. It presents as a unilateral or bilateral painful or painless inguinal mass. Clinically it is difficult to distinguish from inguinal hernia on physical exa...

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Autor principal: Cicilet, Soumya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150517
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description Varicocities of the round ligament is a relatively uncommon condition. Almost all the cases in literature had been reported in pregnant patients. It presents as a unilateral or bilateral painful or painless inguinal mass. Clinically it is difficult to distinguish from inguinal hernia on physical examination. We present a 22-year-old primigravida at 30 weeks of gestation with unilateral round ligament varicocele diagnosed on sonography and Doppler, who was managed conservatively.
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spelling pubmed-61591862018-10-25 Acute groin pain in pregnancy: a case of round ligament varicocele Cicilet, Soumya BJR Case Rep Case Report Varicocities of the round ligament is a relatively uncommon condition. Almost all the cases in literature had been reported in pregnant patients. It presents as a unilateral or bilateral painful or painless inguinal mass. Clinically it is difficult to distinguish from inguinal hernia on physical examination. We present a 22-year-old primigravida at 30 weeks of gestation with unilateral round ligament varicocele diagnosed on sonography and Doppler, who was managed conservatively. The British Institute of Radiology 2017-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6159186/ /pubmed/30363175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150517 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Acute groin pain in pregnancy: a case of round ligament varicocele
title Acute groin pain in pregnancy: a case of round ligament varicocele
title_full Acute groin pain in pregnancy: a case of round ligament varicocele
title_fullStr Acute groin pain in pregnancy: a case of round ligament varicocele
title_full_unstemmed Acute groin pain in pregnancy: a case of round ligament varicocele
title_short Acute groin pain in pregnancy: a case of round ligament varicocele
title_sort acute groin pain in pregnancy: a case of round ligament varicocele
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150517
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