Liaqat Naeem, Dar Sajid Hameed, Sandhu Asif, Iqbal Nayyar, Ahmed Ejaz, Nayyar Sajid Iqbal
Department of Paediatric Surgery, Holy Family Hospital/ Rawalpindi Medical College, Rawalpindi.
Department of Paediatric Surgery, Services Hospital/SIMS, Lahore.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2017 Nov;27(11):727-729.
Among female infants, a mass in the abdomen carries a large number of differential diagnoses. Arelatively uncommon condition is ovarian cyst, which may be encountered among such patients. Even more rare condition is auto-amputation of ovary. We herein, present a case of a female infant who presented as abdominal mass and turned out to be autoamputation of right ovary attached to mesentery of intestine. It was excised successfully and the patient is doing well at 3 years follow-up.