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Yinong Wang1, Ernest A Topran, Fattaneh Tavassoli
1Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06519, USA. yinong.wang@yale.edu
Abstract:
Emphysematous changes in the ovary have not been described previously, although a similar process in the vagina, vaginitis emphysematosa, has been well described in the literature. We present a case with emphysematous changes in the ovary of a 38-year-old woman. Patient presented with a right ovarian cyst. Histologically, in addition to the cystic follicles, a portion of the ovary had numerous cystic spaces lined by histiocytes and giant cells resembling alterations previously noted vaginitis emphysematosum.
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