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Giant Cervical Angiomyomatous Polyp Masquerading Third-Degree Uterine Prolapse: A Rare Case with Review of Literature

Giant cervical polyps are rarely seen nowadays in routine day-to-day practice and are defined as a polyp with a size >4 cm. Giant cervical polyps protruding outside the vaginal canal causing diagnostic dilemma are rarely encountered in gynecologic practice. They masquerade as uterine inversion, p...

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Autores principales: Gothwal, Meenakshi, Singh, Pratibha, Bharti, Jyotsana Naresh, Yadav, Garima, Solanki, Vrushti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31681556
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_386_18
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Sumario:Giant cervical polyps are rarely seen nowadays in routine day-to-day practice and are defined as a polyp with a size >4 cm. Giant cervical polyps protruding outside the vaginal canal causing diagnostic dilemma are rarely encountered in gynecologic practice. They masquerade as uterine inversion, prolapse, or cervical malignancy. Only a few cases have been reported in the literature. We hereby report a case of giant polyp of anterior lip of the cervix occurring in a multiparous woman and presented with something coming out per vagina. Histopathology of it came out to be angiomyomatous polyp (vascular leiomyoma) of the cervix that itself is a rare entity.