What is it about?
It is about a rural woman who is thought to be pregnant as her tummy swells yet she is actually developing a cancer.
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Why is it important?
It raises awareness amongst clinicians about certain conditions that may present as a pregnancy yet they are life-threatening.
Perspectives
This a case of a very lucky patient in the sense that the tumour was slowly growing and after 9 months the mass was surgically removed before eroding vital organs. Chemotherapy should be curative for this type of cancer
Mr Solwayo Ngwenya
Mpilo Central Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Ovarian dysgerminoma presenting as a pregnancy: case report, Tropical Doctor, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0049475516659415.
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