Abstract:

Meigs syndrome refers to the clinical symptoms that these four ovarian tumors: ovarian fibroma, follicular mesenchymoma, Brenner tumor, granulosa cell tumor, accompany with ascites and/or pleural effusion, and the effusion diappear after tumorectomy. Pseudo-Meigs syndrome is defined as a clinical symptoms that except for the above four ovarian tumors, abdominal and pelvic tumors with ascites and/or pleural effusion, effusion disappear after tumorectomy. It rarely happened in clinical work. This report gives an account of the medical history of one case of pseudo-Meigs syndrome admitted to the Second Hospital of Jilin University. The case is uterine leiomyoma complicated with ascites and ascites disappear after myomatectomy. This article improve the understanding of majority of clinicians on pseudo-Meigs syndrome and avoid misdiagnosis by analysing retrospectively the case of diagnosis and treatment process, pathological examination and follow-up results and the related literatures were reviewed.

Key words: Meigs syndrome, Uterus, Leiomyoma, Ascites, Hydrothorax, Case reports, Pseudo-Meigs syndrome