Endometriosis in a patient with Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome
- 1 October 2009
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research
- Vol. 35 (5), 994-996
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0756.2009.01025.x
Abstract
Endometriosis in Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome has been reported only once previously. We present here a case of endometrioma in a patient with Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome. A 26-year-old patient with Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome presented with abrupt pain in the left iliac quadrant. A mass was confirmed by sonography. Laparoscopic inspection revealed no uterus. The mass was removed laparoscopically. Endometriosis was confirmed histologically. If endometrioma in a patient with Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome is associated with a small rudimentary unicornis uterus with a small endometrial cavity, endometriosis can be assumed to have developed by retrograde menstruation theory. Because the patient did not have a functioning endometrium, her endometrioma is assumed to have arisen from coelomic metaplasia.Keywords
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