Abstract
Fibrothecomas are benign ovarian stromal tumors, they are rare tumors of gonadal stromal cell origin that represent 3-4% of all ovarian tumors. It commonly occurs in post-menopausal women. The clinical presentation is often nonspecific, whereas patients more frequently present with a pelvic mass, metrorrhagia, and pelvic pain. We present a 35-year-old patient, nulli-pregnant, with no personal or family pathological history, who attended a medical consultation for presenting progressive abdominal distention of 6 months of evolution in addition to abdominal pain in the last 2 months type colic which increased during her menstrual periods concomitantly alteration in your defecatory habits. Abdominal ultrasound was performed, finding a solid intrapelvic mass of approximately 14x10x10 cm in diameter of probable left ovarian origin, free fluid in the Douglas space, compression and displacement of intestinal loops and bladder. The patient underwent surgery and an exploratory laparotomy was performed, finding a pelvic tumor adhered to the tube and left ovary, in addition to ascites fluid in the abdominal cavity, complete resection of the tumor, ovary and left salpingue was performed.
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