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versión On-line ISSN 1560-4381
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HIRALDA MARTINEZ, Jorge Luís. Report of a Patient with Giant Uterine Myoma. CCM [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.3, pp. 392-396. ISSN 1560-4381.
A 32- year- old patient of black race, with obstetrical history of two spontaneous abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy, nullipara, who was attended at Gynecology Service in January 2010, Kabgayi Hospital in Rwanda, Africa. The patient´s abdomen increased and the clinical manifestations were constipation, vesiacal tenesmus and profuse bleeding that caused severe anemia. After the patient’s interview application and the physical examination was done a giant tumor of the abdominal cavity was found that filled the lower abdomen and surpassed the umbilicus that clinically impressed: a uterine myoma that was later confirmed by abdominal ultrasonography. Surgical treatment was performed with total hysterectomy, and showed a giant tumor of 4.7 kg
Palabras clave : uterus; uterine myoma; giant tumor.