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

Topics: Gynecologic Cancers • Medical Oncology • Neurology • Neuro-immunology

If not, how often do you repeat pelvic imaging?

Answer from: at Academic Institution

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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