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Giant Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma: A Distressing Scenario

Abdominal cystic tumors are highly prevalent. Due to the availability of superior imaging techniques, they are now diagnosed more commonly and considerably earlier. Although giant masses are seen sporadically, particularly in the rural scenarios. A 74-year-old multipara with distension of abdomen an...

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Autores principales: Deo, Asawari, Shrivastava, Deepti, Shanoo, Amardeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9081803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35541292
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23968
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description Abdominal cystic tumors are highly prevalent. Due to the availability of superior imaging techniques, they are now diagnosed more commonly and considerably earlier. Although giant masses are seen sporadically, particularly in the rural scenarios. A 74-year-old multipara with distension of abdomen and breathlessness misdiagnosed as ascites initially was later on confirmed as giant borderline mucinous cystadenoma. We wish to highlight this case to bring forth the plight of rural women who are deprived of standard health care. The case of ovarian tumor presented seems to be the largest documented ovarian tumor in central India to the best of our knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-90818032022-05-09 Giant Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma: A Distressing Scenario Deo, Asawari Shrivastava, Deepti Shanoo, Amardeep Cureus Internal Medicine Abdominal cystic tumors are highly prevalent. Due to the availability of superior imaging techniques, they are now diagnosed more commonly and considerably earlier. Although giant masses are seen sporadically, particularly in the rural scenarios. A 74-year-old multipara with distension of abdomen and breathlessness misdiagnosed as ascites initially was later on confirmed as giant borderline mucinous cystadenoma. We wish to highlight this case to bring forth the plight of rural women who are deprived of standard health care. The case of ovarian tumor presented seems to be the largest documented ovarian tumor in central India to the best of our knowledge. Cureus 2022-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9081803/ /pubmed/35541292 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23968 Text en Copyright © 2022, Deo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Deo, Asawari
Shrivastava, Deepti
Shanoo, Amardeep
Giant Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma: A Distressing Scenario
title Giant Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma: A Distressing Scenario
title_full Giant Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma: A Distressing Scenario
title_fullStr Giant Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma: A Distressing Scenario
title_full_unstemmed Giant Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma: A Distressing Scenario
title_short Giant Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma: A Distressing Scenario
title_sort giant borderline mucinous cystadenoma: a distressing scenario
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9081803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35541292
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23968
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