[Vaginal ultrasound in perityphlitic abscess]

Ultraschall Med. 1997 Feb;18(1):39-41. doi: 10.1055/s-2007-1000514.
[Article in German]

Abstract

A 21 year-old woman presented with an encapsulated mass involving the right ovary, tube and caecum. On transvaginal sonography a 15 mm-target structure was surrounded by irregular, echo-poor formations suggestive of an inflamed appendix and a perityphlitic abscess. Transvaginal sonography is of diagnostic value in differentiating an appendiceal abscess from a right-sided tubo-ovarian abscess.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdomen, Acute / diagnostic imaging*
  • Abdomen, Acute / pathology
  • Abdomen, Acute / surgery
  • Abdominal Abscess / diagnostic imaging*
  • Abdominal Abscess / pathology
  • Abdominal Abscess / surgery
  • Adult
  • Appendectomy
  • Appendicitis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Appendicitis / pathology
  • Appendicitis / surgery
  • Appendix / diagnostic imaging
  • Appendix / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Endosonography*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / pathology
  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / surgery