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Bilateral primary ovarian leiomyoma in a young woman: case report and literature review.

Lim SC, Jeon HJ

Department of Pathology, Chosun University College of Medicine, Gwangju, South Korea. sclim@mail.chosun.ac.kr

BACKGROUND: Primary ovarian leiomyoma is a very rare tumor and usually it is small, unilateral-, and concomitantly seen with uterine leiomyomata in middle-aged to postmenopausal women. CASE: We describe a case of huge, bilateral ovarian leiomyoma that was not associated with uterine tumor in a 17-year-old woman. The authors of this study documented the smooth muscle origin of the tumor with immunohistochemical studies, the available literature was reviewed and the possible histogenesis was discussed. CONCLUSION: We herein report a case of a rare primary bilateral ovarian leiomyoma in a young woman.

Published 7 December 2004 in Gynecol Oncol, 95(3): 733-5.
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