Spontaneous rupture of a primary carcinoma of the ovary complicating pregnancy

A rare case of infection and spontaneous rupture in ovarian mucinous cystadenoma

“…Although mucinous tumours can grow to extremely large sizes and clinical presentation can be variable, presentation with infection, sepsis and rupture, as in our case, is very rare. Spontaneous rupture in ovarian tumours is seen uncommonly, usually occurring in pregnant women or those on anticoagulants, and is typically due to torsion with infarction, direct trauma, malignant change or internal pressure from the rapid growth of the cyst and rarely due to infection of its contents, which can occur after an intervention or procedure like drainage or aspiration 4–6. Spontaneous infection of ovarian tumours (in the absence of intervention) is even rarer, with only one prior case report of an ovarian mucinous cystadenoma complicated by abscess formation in the literature, although the exact route of infection entry and its duration were concluded as obscure by the authors and the patient lacked fever, peritonism and signs of sepsis 7.…”

Spontaneous rupture of ovarian cystadenocarcinoma: pre- and post-rupture computed tomography evaluation

“…Few reports are found in the literature about spontaneous rupture of ovarian cystadenocarcinoma and these reports are mainly regarding pregnant women ( 3 - 5 ) and patients using anticoagulant drugs ( 6 ) . The authors report the first case of spontaneous rupture of ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma documented by computed tomography both before and after the event.…”