HYPERREACTIO LUTEINALIS MASQUERADING AS AN OVARIAN NEOPLASM IN A TRIPLET PREGNANCY

Hyperreactio luteinalis is a non-neoplastic tumor-like ovarian lesion associated with pregnancy. Most patients are asymptomatic, with the ov arian enlargement being incidentally discovered at the time of cesarea n section. It can simulate a neoplasm on clinical, gross and sometimes microscopic examination. We report a case of hyperreactio luteinalis in a patient, who was diagnosed as having polycystic ovary disease bef ore conceiving a triplet pregnancy after three treatment cycles of hum an menopausal gonadotropin-human chorionic gonadotropin therapy, and d iscuss its pathogenesis.