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Case Reports
. 2022 Sep 12;194(35):E1215.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220185.

Hydatidiform mole in a 39-year-old woman

Aziz Slaoui  1 , Aicha Kharbach  2 , Aziz Baydada  2
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Case Reports

Hydatidiform mole in a 39-year-old woman

Aziz Slaoui et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Photograph of a patient in the lithotomy position with heavy bleeding of vulvar origin, showing patient’s legs (white arrow); characteristic appearance of a hydatiform mole (red arrow), with vesicles of variable size (from a few millimetres to 1.5–2 cm in diameter) with transparent walls; blood clots and fragments of the endometrial decidua; and surgical drapes (blue arrow).
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