Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 6-1988. A 36-year-old woman with a past history of pelvic pain and a recent finding of a pelvic mass

Richard C. Cabot, Robert E. Scully, Eugene J. Mark, William F. McNeely, Betty U. McNeely, Jerome M. Federschneider, Joanne Rutgers
New England Journal of Medicine · 1988 · vol. 318(6) , pp. 366–372 · doi:10.1056/nejm198802113180607 · PMID:3340107 · W2430145080
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This case presents a 36-year-old woman with a pelvic mass who had previously undergone hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for leiomyomas and endometriosis, respectively.

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Presentation of CaseA 36-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a pelvic mass.Seven years earlier a total abdominal hysterectomy was performed elsewhere because of pelvic pain of five days' duration and the finding of an enlarged uterus; pathological examination showed uterine leiomyomas. The pain persisted, and four years before entry bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy was performed at the same hospital, with relief of pain; endometriosis was found in both ovaries. Treatment with conjugated estrogens was begun. Eleven months before entry the patient began to have almost constant dull pain in the left lower abdominal quadrant, together with low . . .

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endometriosis

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Ovarian Cysts Ovariectomy Ovariectomy Ovary Postoperative Complications Adult Adult Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Estrogens Estrogens Estrogens Female Female Humans Humans Ovarian Cysts Ovarian Cysts

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