OSSIFICATION OF OVARIAN CYST: A RARE CASE REPORT

Ajay Kr Singh, Manish Kr. Singh, Sonal Ghavghave, Akankcha Agarwal, Madhu Mati Goel
In: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental sciences · 2013 · vol. 2(25) , pp. 4523–4527 · doi:10.14260/jemds/872 · W2326902055
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This report describes an incidental finding of ossification within a chocolate cyst of a resected ovary in a 42-year-old female patient.

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Ossification in ovarian cyst is an exclusively rare entity. The most common findings associated with ovarian ossification is dermoid cyst, osseous metaplasia in stroma rich in serous or mucinous neoplasm and ossification of chocolate cyst. Here the author reports a case of incidental finding of ossification in the chocolate cyst of resected ovary in 42 year old female, who had gone for total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for the provisional diagnosis of postmenopausal bleeding. The clinical significance of ossified ovarian cyst is that they mimic malignant lesion but they can treat conservatively with close follow-up apart from the

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