title: [Large uterine fibroma in a 15 year old adolescent. Giant leiomyoma in adolescence].
abstract: We report a case of giant leiomyoma in a 15-year-old teenager. Diagnosis was based on the association of menorrhagia, severe anemia and presence of a solid painless abdominal mass. Approximately 25-40% of uterine leiomyomas occur in women during childbearing years but exceptional cases are observed during adolescence. Conservative treatment by laparoscopic or laparotomic myomectomy should be considered the only valid approach in teenagers.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Protection de la Mère et des Nouveau-nés, Université de Médecine, Hanoï, Vietnam. ipmn@hn.vnn.vn
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nguyen-Duc
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D009215:Myometrium / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*