Giant Ovarian Serous Cystadenoma is a very common benign ovarian tumor. The giant cyst, encompassing the whole abdomen, was detected during an abdominal ultrasound. During a laparotomy (surgical incision into the abdominal cavity), a giant, smooth, vascularized, cystic mass attached to the right ovary was encountered. An oophorectomy (ovary removal surgery) was conducted on the 35 year-old female patient.
Holy crap. It’s one thing when your professor talks about ovarian tumors of this size… but to see a picture of it…
Oh wait, here we go, a much more appropriate image. This is what we did a couple weeks ago. This exact procedure.
On first glance I thought the article said they went laproscopic and then encountered a mass and I was thinking…. What...