Symptomatic fibroid uterus in a 15-year-old girl
Bekker, G.; Gavrilescu, T.; Rickets-Holcomb, L.; Puka-Khandam, P.; Akhtar, A.; Ansari, A.
International Surgery 89(2): 80-82
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0020-8868 PMID: 15285238 Document Number: 575028
A 15 year-old gravida 1, abortus 1 black girl presented with chief complaints of menorrhagia, severe dysmenorrhea, and progressively worsening abdominal pain, which was caused by a very large uterine leiomyoma. The symptoms began 6 months earlier, shortly after a 10-week spontaneous abortion at age 14. A solitary 25-cm uterine leiomyoma was removed uneventfully with an abdominal laparotomy. In the English literature of the past 50 years, this case represents the sixth, and we believe, the largest, documented uterine fibroid among teenagers, which required corrective surgery.