Treatment of a giant uterine fibroid during pregnancy: a case report

Uterine fibroids are the most common benign uterine tumors, affecting 2-10% of pregnant women. In pregnancy, they can manifest as abdominal pain, uterine bleeding or as a rapidly growing mass. Their association with obstetric complications depends mostly on the location, with subserous myomas being practically harmless, except if they’re associated with rapid growth or are of considerable size. This clinical case reports a pregnant woman that presented with a rapidly growing myoma associated with abdominal pain, whose diagnosis was made in the first trimester and who underwent myomectomy at 16 weeks' gestation.