VOLUMINOUS TUMOUR OF
Accepted
29 March 2026
Available Online
15 March 2019
Abstract
IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES THERE IS AN INCREASE IN THE INCIDENCE OF UTERINE TUMOURS, WHICH BECAME THE THIRD LOCALIZATION AFTER BREAST AND RECTUM -COLON IN WOMEN, BEFORE CERVICAL CANCER. WE PRESENTED THE CASE OF A 49 -YEAR-OLD PATIENT HOSPITALIZED WITH PALE, ABNORMAL VAGINAL BLEEDING, DYSPAREUNIA AND FETID ODOR IN THE EXTERNAL GENITAL ORGANS. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION REVEALED A FRIABLE, IRREGULAR, BLEEDING TUMOUR OF 10/15 CM, WITH STRETCHED ARE AS OF SUPPURATION AND NECROSIS, FETID ODOR, WHICH PROLAPSED UP TO VAGINA. LABORATORY TESTS SHOWED A LOWER LEVEL OF HAEMOGLOBIN 6 G –SEVERE ANAEMIA, WHICH WAS PARTIALLY CORRECTED UP TO 7.2 G WITH 2 VIALS OF BLOOD AND IT WAS DECIDED THE NECESSITY SURGICAL IN TERVENTION. THE SURGERY WAS DONE WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS, TOTAL HYSTERECTOMY WITH BILATERAL SALPINGOOOPHERECTOMY WAS PERFORMED. PLEASANT SURPRISE WAS THE HISTOPATHOLOGICAL RESULTS, WHO SHOWED UP A BENIGN LESION.
Keywords
VOLUMINOUS TUMOR
HYSTERECTOMY
ANAEMIA
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