creators_name: Sailaja, S creators_name: Rathod, PS creators_name: Umadevi, K creators_name: Shruti, S creators_name: Bafna, UD creators_id: sailaja_suryadevara@yahoo.com editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas editors_id: Kakkilaya BS type: journale datestamp: 2015-02-21 14:36:17 lastmod: 2015-04-20 11:43:15 metadata_visibility: show title: Preoperative Surprise of a Mass per Abdomen Mimicking Ovarian Neoplasm in a 50 Years Old Woman ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: Ovarian neoplasm; Leiomyomata uteri; Degenerated abstract: We report a large cystic tumour of about 40cms size in a perimenopusal woman mimicking ovarian tumour, with peroperative surprise of finding it as degenerated fibroid arising from fundus of the uterus. date: 2014-02-20 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 12 number: 4(12) publisher: Kakkilaya BS refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. Rock JA, Jones HW. Leiomyomata Uteri and Myomectomy. In: TeLinde’s Operative Gynecology. 10th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008. 2. Robboy SJ, Bentley RC, Butnor K, Anderson MC. Pathology and pathophysiology of uterine smooth-muscle tumors. Environ Health Perspect. 2000;108:779S–84S. 3. Murase E, Siegelman ES, Outwater EK, Perez-Jaffe LA, Tureck RW. Uterine leiomyomas: histopathologic features, MR imaging findings, differential diagnosis, and treatment. Radiographics 1999;19:1179–1197. 4. Low SCA, Chong CL. A Case of Cystic Leiomyoma Mimicking an Ovarian Malignancy. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2004;33:371-374. 5. Yarwood RL, Arroyo E. Cystic degeneration of a uterine leiomyoma masquerading as a postmenopausal ovarian cyst: a case report. J Reprod Med 1999;44:649–652. 6. Reddy NM, Jain K, Gerscovich EO. A degenerating cystic uterine fibroid mimicking an endometrioma on sonography. J Ultrasound Med 2003;22:973–976. 7. Tok CH, Bux SI, Mohamed SI, Lim BK. Degenerated uterine fibroid mimicking hydrometra: fallacy in CT.Biomed Imaging Interv J. 2006;2(4):e42. 8. Kaushik C, Prasad A, Singh Y, Baruah BP. Case Series: Cystic degeneration in Uterine Leiomyomas. Indian J Radiol Imaging 2008;18(1):69-72. citation: Sailaja, S and Rathod, PS and Umadevi, K and Shruti, S and Bafna, UD (2014) Preoperative Surprise of a Mass per Abdomen Mimicking Ovarian Neoplasm in a 50 Years Old Woman. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/9719/1/2013-4-12.pdf