Bowel obstruction resulting from ovarian masses is a serious complication of these diseases. This may be caused by bulky masses filling the pelvis and the abdomen, and should be carefully worked out by pre-operative imaging because of their non-specific clinical signs that may be confused with those due to other conditions such as: volvulus, cancer or adhesions. We report the case of a 70 years old woman with a bulky pelvic-abdominal mass of 27 × 20 cm that was found to be an “ovarian serous cystadenoma” and clinical signs of intestinal obstruction, which was treated by uterus sparing surgery.
Bowel obstruction from benign adnexal mass i an elderly patient / Assenza, Marco; Rossi, Davide; DE GRUTTOLA, Ivan; Scala, Annarita; Falaschi, Federica; Modini, Claudio. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY AND IMAGING TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 2572-3235. - 2:1(2016). [10.23937/2572-3235]
Bowel obstruction from benign adnexal mass i an elderly patient
Assenza Marco
;Rossi Davide;De Gruttola Ivan;Falaschi Federica;Modini Claudio
2016
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Bowel obstruction resulting from ovarian masses is a serious complication of these diseases. This may be caused by bulky masses filling the pelvis and the abdomen, and should be carefully worked out by pre-operative imaging because of their non-specific clinical signs that may be confused with those due to other conditions such as: volvulus, cancer or adhesions. We report the case of a 70 years old woman with a bulky pelvic-abdominal mass of 27 × 20 cm that was found to be an “ovarian serous cystadenoma” and clinical signs of intestinal obstruction, which was treated by uterus sparing surgery.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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