Geburtsh Frauenheilk
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Geburtsh Frauenheilk · Apr 1980
Case Reports[Secondary torsion of the uterus caused by a big leiomyoma (author's transl)].
Laparotomy was performed in a 53 year old woman because of an acute abdomen in combination with a huge pelvic mass. The consisted in a big leiomyoma uteri which showed a torsion of 360 degrees. Both the ovaries and the tubes have been involved in the torsion. The corpus uteri was spontaneously abrupted from the cervix and from the ligamenta rotunda bilateralia.