Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine

The Korean Society for Reproductive Medicine (대한생식의학회)
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A spontaneous pregnancy and live birth in a woman with primary infertility following the excision of an ovarian adrenal rest tumor: A rare case

  • Uyanikoglu, Hacer (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and IVF Unit, Harran University Medical Faculty) ;
  • Ozer, Gonul (In Vitro Fertilization Unit, Istanbul Memorial Hospital) ;
  • Kahraman, Semra (In Vitro Fertilization Unit, Istanbul Memorial Hospital)
  • Received : 2020.03.24
  • Accepted : 2020.05.26
  • Published : 2020.12.31
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Abstract

Adrenal rest tumors are a rare extra-adrenal complication of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in women although they are more commonly found in the testes of male patients with CAH. An ovarian adrenal rest tumor (OART) may coexist with CAH or imitate its symptoms without CAH. In this case report, we present the case of a woman with OART without CAH, whose main complaint was infertility and who had a baby after successful surgical treatment.

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