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01-11-2009 | Case Report

Unilateral ovarian and fallopian tube agenesis

Authors: Giusi Rapisarda, Elisa Maria Pappalardo, Anna Arancio, Michele La Greca

Published in: Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics | Issue 5/2009

Abstract

Introduction

The unilateral agenesis of the ovary and fallopian tube is an extremely uncommon event with only few cases described in literature.

Case report

Here, we report a case of a 30-year-old woman admitted to our Unit for increasing pelvic pain. In the suspect of a corpus luteum hemorrhage, we performed a laparoscopy identifying the rare anomaly.

Discussion

Together with the predisposing genetic and/or environmental factor not yet discovered, two are the hypotheses explaining the absence of one or both the adnexes, the mechanical hypothesis, i.e., the asymptomatic torsion of both Fallopian tube and ovary with consequent organs’ ischemia and atresia and the embryological hypothesis, i.e., the congenital absence of the adnexes.

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Title: Unilateral ovarian and fallopian tube agenesis
Authors: Giusi Rapisarda
Elisa Maria Pappalardo
Anna Arancio
Michele La Greca
Publication date: 01-11-2009
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics / Issue 5/2009
Print ISSN: 0932-0067
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0711
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-009-1018-z

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Unilateral ovarian and fallopian tube agenesis

Abstract

Introduction

Case report

Discussion

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Abstract

Introduction

Case report

Discussion

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