Pseudomyxoma peritonei: a rare differential diagnosis of hydrosalpinx
Silvina Maria Bocca1, Roger Perry, Sergio Oehninger
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. boccas@evms.edu
Objective:
To establish the diagnosis of a right hydrosalpinx in a woman with primary infertility.
Design:
Case report.
Setting:
Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Surgery, academic medical center and teaching hospital.
Patient(S):
A healthy 41-year-old woman with a history of primary infertility and a possible right hydrosalpinx.
Intervention(S):
Operative laparoscopy, disconnection of right hydrosalpinx, peritoneal biopsies.
Main Outcome Measure(S):
Establishment of diagnosis with peritoneal biopsies.
Result(S):
The patient was diagnosed with peritoneal pseudomyxoma peritonei, which required further treatment.
Conclusion(S):
Malignancies, although rare, should always be part of the differential diagnosis of external causes of tubal disease.
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