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In women of childbearing age with NMDA encephalitis and normal pelvic imaging, is there a role for oophorectomy for possible microteratoma?

If not, how often do you repeat pelvic imaging?
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Neurology · Mayo Clinic
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Pelvic imaging of female patients with anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis for ovarian teratoma should consist of MRI of pelvis or ultrasound of pelvis with transvaginal views. If this testing is unrevealing, the recommendation, in general, is not to proceed with oophorectomy. There have been reports of...

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