Medical Must-See: A hairy cause of abdominal discomfort
Rupture only occurs in 1-2% of dermoid cyst cases, doctors say.
A Nepalese woman’s weeks-long abdominal discomfort turned out to be a ruptured ovarian dermoid cyst, complete with hairy tufts and greasy material.
The 64-year-old presented to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, where contrast-enhanced abdominal and pelvic CT revealed non-enhancing, fat-attenuating cystic lesions, with internal calcifications in both adnexae.
