Management of uterine giant myoma.
BACKGROUND
Giant myomas of the uterus are uncommon, particularly in developed countries.


METHODS
This report illustrates a case of a woman with a bilobated giant myoma of the uterus weighed in total 27.7 kg. The patient had an abdominal distension first noted 18 months before and the personal history evidenced difficulties in walking and tiredness. Abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy were carried out.


CONCLUSIONS
The knowledge of the different clinical manifestation of these myomas may allow to face that with adequate perioperative care, in order to assure a carefully and successfully surgery, although sometimes a benign pathology may be not easy to suspect in a first time.
Nappi
Luigi
L
Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ospedaliriuniti Foggia, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
Matteo
Maria
M
Giardina
Silvio
S
Rosenberg
Piergiorgio
P
Indraccolo
Ugo
U
Greco
Pantaleo
P
D005187:Fallopian Tubes / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006554:Hernia, Umbilical / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010052:Ovariectomy; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*