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Case Reports
. 2014 May 29:2014:bcr2014204270.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2014-204270.

An unusual presentation of endometriosis

Feras Abu Saadeh  1 , Nor Azei Wahab  1 , Noreen Gleeson  1
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Case Reports

An unusual presentation of endometriosis

Feras Abu Saadeh et al. BMJ Case Rep. .

Abstract

A 25-year-old nulliparous woman attended an orthopaedic clinic with a 12-month history of right hip pain and was found to have a hard tender mass in her right groin. Fine-needle aspiration yielded a diagnosis of endometrial glands. The lesion was excised completely and the final diagnosis was round ligament endometriosis. The patient was pain free 3 months postsurgery.

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Figure 1
Clinical picture of the lesion, superolateral to right pubic tubercle.
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Figure 2
Ultrasound of the right groin area showing the complex hypoechoic lesion with poor boundaries.
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Figure 3
MRI showing the mass.
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Figure 4
The lesion after surgical excision.
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Figure 5
Histopathological diagnosis of endometrial gland and stroma within fibrous tissue: (A) low power, (B) immunohistochemical stain with CD10 highlights endometrial stroma and (C) high power.
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