[Clinical case of the month. Constipation and abdominal mass syndrome in a 51-year-old patient].
A 51-year old patient consults for abdominal swelling and persistent constipation. Clinical exploration shows the presence of a left iliac fossa tumor corresponding to a papillary serous adenocarcinoma of the fallopian tube after macroscopic and microscopic examination. The diagnostic and therapeutic problems caused by this rare gynecologic tumor are discussed.
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Maître de recherches du FNRS, Agrégé, Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie pathologiques, CHU Sart Tilman.
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Thiry
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Boniver
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Herens
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Delvenne
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D000005:Abdomen / Q000473:pathology; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003248:Constipation / Q000209:etiology*; D005185:Fallopian Tube Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged