Gonococcal peritonitis diagnosed post laparotomy in a 38-year-old woman: a case report

A 38-year-old South African lady with a background history of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia and recent colposcopy presented to the emergency department with severe abdominal pain. Initial investigations were non-diagnostic and despite empirical antibiotic therapy the patient developed peritoni...

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Autores principales: Wilmore, Stephanie MS, Reynolds, Carl J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20011634
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8080
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description A 38-year-old South African lady with a background history of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia and recent colposcopy presented to the emergency department with severe abdominal pain. Initial investigations were non-diagnostic and despite empirical antibiotic therapy the patient developed peritonism. Post-laprotomy the diagnosis of severe pelvic inflammatory disease and peritonitis secondary to infection with Neisseria Gonorrhoea was made.
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spelling pubmed-27907382009-12-10 Gonococcal peritonitis diagnosed post laparotomy in a 38-year-old woman: a case report Wilmore, Stephanie MS Reynolds, Carl J Cases J Case Report A 38-year-old South African lady with a background history of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia and recent colposcopy presented to the emergency department with severe abdominal pain. Initial investigations were non-diagnostic and despite empirical antibiotic therapy the patient developed peritonism. Post-laprotomy the diagnosis of severe pelvic inflammatory disease and peritonitis secondary to infection with Neisseria Gonorrhoea was made. BioMed Central 2009-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2790738/ /pubmed/20011634 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8080 Text en Copyright ©2009 Wilmore and Reynolds; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gonococcal peritonitis diagnosed post laparotomy in a 38-year-old woman: a case report
title Gonococcal peritonitis diagnosed post laparotomy in a 38-year-old woman: a case report
title_full Gonococcal peritonitis diagnosed post laparotomy in a 38-year-old woman: a case report
title_fullStr Gonococcal peritonitis diagnosed post laparotomy in a 38-year-old woman: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Gonococcal peritonitis diagnosed post laparotomy in a 38-year-old woman: a case report
title_short Gonococcal peritonitis diagnosed post laparotomy in a 38-year-old woman: a case report
title_sort gonococcal peritonitis diagnosed post laparotomy in a 38-year-old woman: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790738/
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