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Case report: Endometrioma of the abdominal wall.

Huff TN, Geiger XJ, Duffy GP, O'Connor MI

Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, Augusta, GA, USA.

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.

Published 3 October 2007 in Clin Orthop Relat Res, 463: 221-4.
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