Bilateral primary ovarian leiomyoma in a young woman: case report and literature review.
BACKGROUND
Primary ovarian leiomyoma is a very rare tumor and usually it is small, unilateral-, and concomitantly seen with uterine leiomyomata in middle-aged to postmenopausal women.


METHODS
We describe a case of huge, bilateral ovarian leiomyoma that was not associated with uterine tumor in a 17-year-old woman. The authors of this study documented the smooth muscle origin of the tumor with immunohistochemical studies, the available literature was reviewed and the possible histogenesis was discussed.


CONCLUSIONS
We herein report a case of a rare primary bilateral ovarian leiomyoma in a young woman.
Lim
Sung-chul
SC
Department of Pathology, Chosun University College of Medicine, Gwangju, South Korea. sclim@mail.chosun.ac.kr
Jeon
Ho-jong
HJ
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*