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Round Ligament Varicosity Thrombosis Presenting as an Irreducible Inguinal Mass in a Postpartum Woman

Round ligament varicosities occur almost exclusively in pregnant and postpartum women and present similarly to inguinal hernias clinically, thus posing diagnostic challenges to clinicians. The distinction of the two conditions is important as round ligament varicosities do not require surgery while...

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Autores principales: Ng, Carol, Wong, Gloria Ting
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6712551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508263
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JCIS-19-2019
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description Round ligament varicosities occur almost exclusively in pregnant and postpartum women and present similarly to inguinal hernias clinically, thus posing diagnostic challenges to clinicians. The distinction of the two conditions is important as round ligament varicosities do not require surgery while inguinal hernias do. Rarely, round ligament varicosites may be complicated by thrombosis or hemorrhage. In this case report, we present a rare case of round ligament varicosity (RLV) which has been complicated by thrombosis. The radiological features on ultrasound and contrast computed tomography of a thrombosed RLV are presented.
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spelling pubmed-67125512019-09-10 Round Ligament Varicosity Thrombosis Presenting as an Irreducible Inguinal Mass in a Postpartum Woman Ng, Carol Wong, Gloria Ting J Clin Imaging Sci Case Report Round ligament varicosities occur almost exclusively in pregnant and postpartum women and present similarly to inguinal hernias clinically, thus posing diagnostic challenges to clinicians. The distinction of the two conditions is important as round ligament varicosities do not require surgery while inguinal hernias do. Rarely, round ligament varicosites may be complicated by thrombosis or hemorrhage. In this case report, we present a rare case of round ligament varicosity (RLV) which has been complicated by thrombosis. The radiological features on ultrasound and contrast computed tomography of a thrombosed RLV are presented. Scientific Scholar 2019-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6712551/ /pubmed/31508263 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JCIS-19-2019 Text en © 2019 - Published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of Journal of Clinical Imaging Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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