Gynecology & Obstetrics
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Dejene Asefa

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• Case Report
  Chronic Postmenopausal Uterine Inversion: A Case Report
  Author(s): Dejene Asefa and Nadia Yimar Dejene Asefa and Nadia Yimar
  
  Introduction: Chronic non-puerperal uterine inversion is rare and emerges particularly in an over-aged group of women of reproductive age, usually associated with uterine pathology. Its diagnosis is based on high index of suspicion. Case presentation: A 70-year-old para-2 Ethiopian woman came to our hospital with a complaint of mass protruding per vaginum of month duration for it become painful and irreducible over the last five days. Subsequently vaginal hysterectomy done via combined abdomino-vaginal approach. The certainty of diagnosis of inverted uterus reached intraoperative when a dimple with a diameter of 3 cm in the midpelvis containing bilateral round ligaments, infundibulopelvic ligaments and bladder were seen intraoperative after laparotomy. Gross examination of cut section of the removed uterus showed a fundally located fundal my.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-0932.1000384

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