title: Pseudomyxoma peritonei: a rare differential diagnosis of hydrosalpinx.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish the diagnosis of a right hydrosalpinx in a woman with primary infertility.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Surgery, academic medical center and teaching hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  A healthy 41-year-old woman with a history of primary infertility and a possible right hydrosalpinx.
  
  
  METHODS
  Operative laparoscopy, disconnection of right hydrosalpinx, peritoneal biopsies.
  
  
  METHODS
  Establishment of diagnosis with peritoneal biopsies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patient was diagnosed with peritoneal pseudomyxoma peritonei, which required further treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Malignancies, although rare, should always be part of the differential diagnosis of external causes of tubal disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. boccas@evms.edu
authors.forename: Silvina Maria
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Bocca
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oehninger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005184:Fallopian Tube Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011553:Pseudomyxoma Peritonei / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery