Case report: Endometrioma of the abdominal wall
Tamara N Huff1, Xochiquetzal J Geiger, Gavan P Duffy
1Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, Augusta, GA, USA.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|June 19, 2007
Abstract:
We present the case of a 39-year-old woman with a 2- to 3-month history of a soft tissue mass involving the abdominal wall and increasing symptoms that fluctuated relative to her menses. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a hemorrhagic multiloculated mass within the rectus abdominus muscle. Correlation of the clinical history and imaging finding suggested a preoperative diagnosis of endometrioma of the abdominal wall. This was confirmed on histologic analysis of the resected specimen.
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