Giant abdominopelvic retroperitoneal leiomyoma

Primary giant retroperitoneal leiomyoma are rare pelvic benignomas with about a hundred described in the literature. We present a case of an extremely large abdominopelvic retroperitoneal solid tumor (leiomyoma) in a 43-year nuligravidas, 38 × 30 × 21 cm, weight 8600 g, resolved by tumorectomy with full recovery and fertility preserva-tion.

Myoma; Retroperitoneal tumor; Tumorectomy

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