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Sagittal T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 18 weeks of gestation shows a large fibroid (white asterisk) engaged in the pouch of Douglas. The cervix (white arrow) and the anterior wall of uterus (dashed line) are cranioventrally stretched. The fundus and the posterior wall of uterus (dotted line) were entrapped in the pelvis between the sacral promontory and pubic symphysis. Dashed arrows show external ostium of uterus (a) and internal one (b). F = fetus; P = placenta (a, b).
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The uterus was strongly retroverted; therefore the fundus and the posterior wall of uterus were entrapped in the pelvis between the sacral promontory and pubic symphysis (Figure 1).
Sagittal T2-weighted MRI after delivery shows a large fibroid (white asterisk) located in fundus.
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MRI performed 3 months after delivery showed a large fibroid in the fundus of the uterus (Figure 2).