A RARE CASE OF ABRUPTION WITH LUTEOMA OF PREGNANCY
Abstract
Pelvic masses encountered in pregnancy constitute 0.5 to 2.2. percentage. Among them, the most common are uterine fibroids and adnexal masses like corpus luteal cysts which usually regress after 16 weeks. The neoplasms associated with pregnancy are benign cystic teratomas and cystademomas. Luteoma of pregnancy is a rare non neo plastic mass with only 200 cases so far reported. Mostly, it is bilateral and in 36 percentage of cases associated with androgen production causing masculinisation in the mother and the fetus. Ours is a rare case of luteoma of pregnancy which had undergone torsion and was associated with abruption in a 32 week gestation.
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