Abstract
A patient undergoing abdominal exploration for right lower quadrant pain had right ovarian torsion and an absent uterus. This first reported case of ovarian torsion associated with the Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome is presented and this rare syndrome reviewed.
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Brown, P.F., McLendon, H.L. & Pettitt, B.J. Ovarian torsion in a patient with congenital absence of the uterus. Pediatr Surg Int 7, 67–68 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00181008
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