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Case Reports
. 2003;20(3):246-8.
doi: 10.1159/000070392.

Spontaneous endometriosis of the abdominal wall

Steve C Ideyi  1 , Moshe Schein, Massoma Niazi, Paul H Gerst
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Case Reports

Spontaneous endometriosis of the abdominal wall

Steve C Ideyi et al. Dig Surg. 2003.

Abstract

Background: The abdominal wall is the commonest site of extrapelvic endometriosis, which usually develops in association with a prior surgical scar.

Case: A 28-year-old woman with two endometriomas in the recti abdominis, which developed in a scarless abdomen.

Conclusions: Abdominal wall endometrioma can develop spontaneously in the absence of prior surgical scar and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of abdominal wall masses.

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