Uterine leiomyoma appearing as an inguinal mass.

Abstract

Case Report A 44-year-old woman presented complaining of a slightly tender left inguinal mass, of which she had been aware for about I month. On physical examination. the mass was relatively hard and could not be pushed back into the abdominal cavity. Sonography revealed a pedunculated, solid 3-cm mass in the left inguinal area (Fig. 1A). The stalk of the mass extended into the abdominal cavity and seemed to be continuous with the uterine corpus (Fig. 1B). Beside the mass, the left ovary could be identifled adjacent to the uterus; therefore, the mass