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A 30-year-old woman with a history of endometriosis and hormonal treatment presented with a large adnexal mass mimicking malignancy, ultimately diagnosed as multifocal polypoid endometriosis.
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Polypoid endometriosis is a rare type of endometriosis that sometimes mimics the clinical presentation of malignancy. We report a case of a young woman with a history of hormone treat-ment who was suspected to have an ovarian malignancy with metastases. CASE REPORT A 30-year-old G0P0 woman with a history of left ovarian cystectomy due to endometriosis presented with a huge left ad-nexal mass detected on ultrasonography. After the previous cys-tectomy, she was administered a gonadotrophin releasing hor-mne (GnRH) agonist for four months and then a combined oral contraceptive (OC), Mercilon (Organon Ltd., Doublin, Ireland) (mixed ethinylestradiol and desogestrel), for about two years. Her menstrual cycle was regular, but she experienced severe dysmenorrhea. The patient’s serum cancer antigen (CA) 125 level
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