title: Bilateral primary ovarian leiomyoma in a young woman: case report and literature review.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Chosun University College of Medicine, Gwangju, South Korea. sclim@mail.chosun.ac.kr
authors.forename: Sung-chul
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Ho-jong
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Jeon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*