The Superinfection of a Dermoid Cyst

Mature cystic teratoma may be complicated by torsion, rupture, and malignant change, but is rarely complicated by infection. Here we report the case of a patient who presented with a tubo-ovarian abscess following a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure in the setting of an ovarian dermoid cyst...

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Autores principales: Luk, Janelle, Quaas, Alexander, Garner, Elizabeth
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1906865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17641723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/41473
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description Mature cystic teratoma may be complicated by torsion, rupture, and malignant change, but is rarely complicated by infection. Here we report the case of a patient who presented with a tubo-ovarian abscess following a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure in the setting of an ovarian dermoid cyst.
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spelling pubmed-19068652007-07-19 The Superinfection of a Dermoid Cyst Luk, Janelle Quaas, Alexander Garner, Elizabeth Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol Case Report Mature cystic teratoma may be complicated by torsion, rupture, and malignant change, but is rarely complicated by infection. Here we report the case of a patient who presented with a tubo-ovarian abscess following a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure in the setting of an ovarian dermoid cyst. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2007 2007-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC1906865/ /pubmed/17641723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/41473 Text en Copyright © 2007 Janelle Luk et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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