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Bilateral ovarian leiomyomas: CT and MRI features.

Yoshitake T, Asayama Y, Yoshimitsu K, Irie H, Aibe H, Tajima T, Nishie A, Nakayama T, Kakihara D, Ariyoshi K, Kaneki E, Honda H

Department of Clinical Radiology, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.

We recently treated a 21-year-old woman with leiomyomas arising from the bilateral ovaries, a very rare condition. On magnetic resonance imaging, more than half of the left adnexal mass showed low signal intensity on T2-weighted images and good enhancement by gadolinium-DTPA, and the remaining part showed high signal intensity on T2-weighted images, so the lesions initially were diagnosed as ovarian fibromas or as thecomas with a certain degree of degeneration. Pathologic examination of the excised tumors proved that they were bilateral ovarian leiomyomas; in addition, the tumor from the left side showed hemorrhagic and myxoid changes with torsion of 180 degrees.

Published 9 March 2005 in Abdom Imaging, 30(1): 117-9.
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