Dr, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Case Report
Primary ovarian retroperitoneal serous cystadenoma primarily diagnosed as ovarian torsion managed laparoscopically: Case Report
Author(s): Nada Alayed, Khalid Akkour, Rana Al Ohaly, Fady Alakeel, Amany Abuhassan, Ahmed Sherif Abdel Hamid AS* and Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelaziz
Introduction: The site of pathology is the unique about this case, ovary is an intraperitoneal structure, in this case the ovary was retroperitoneal and there was ovarian serous cystadenoma (1st case in literature), Serous cystadenoma arises retroperitoneal but to the best of our knoweldge we didnot find any cases in literature describing primary Ovarian serous cystadenoma.
Case presentation: The patient is virgin, 26 years old presented with history of ovarian cyst of 3-month duration and acute lower abdominal pain, on examination there was tender lower abdomen, ultrasound was done revealing ovarian cyst with limited study of abdominal doppler. Provisional diagnosis of ovarian torsion that was managed laparoscopically by retroperitoneal cyst adenectomy clarifying a very unusual site of the ovary.
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