CT Diagnosis of an Abortion-Related Retroperitoneal Space Abscess

A female patient with a history of recent abortion was transferred in critically ill condition in our hospital. CT imaging on emergency basis depicted an abscess in the right retroperitoneal space that included the head of fetus, along with rupture of the right lateral wall of uterus. Spiral CT enab...

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Autores principales: Themistoklis, Spyridopoulos N, Chrysovalantis, Vergadis, Stylianos, Argentos, Nikolaos, Kelekis L, Efthymia, Alexopoulou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22383917
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr509w
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author Themistoklis, Spyridopoulos N
Chrysovalantis, Vergadis
Stylianos, Argentos
Nikolaos, Kelekis L
Efthymia, Alexopoulou
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description A female patient with a history of recent abortion was transferred in critically ill condition in our hospital. CT imaging on emergency basis depicted an abscess in the right retroperitoneal space that included the head of fetus, along with rupture of the right lateral wall of uterus. Spiral CT enabled prompt diagnosis and therapy of this rare abortion-related complication. KEYWORDS: CT-Spiral; Uterus; Complication; Rupture; Obstetrics
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spelling pubmed-32794912012-03-01 CT Diagnosis of an Abortion-Related Retroperitoneal Space Abscess Themistoklis, Spyridopoulos N Chrysovalantis, Vergadis Stylianos, Argentos Nikolaos, Kelekis L Efthymia, Alexopoulou J Clin Med Res Case Report A female patient with a history of recent abortion was transferred in critically ill condition in our hospital. CT imaging on emergency basis depicted an abscess in the right retroperitoneal space that included the head of fetus, along with rupture of the right lateral wall of uterus. Spiral CT enabled prompt diagnosis and therapy of this rare abortion-related complication. KEYWORDS: CT-Spiral; Uterus; Complication; Rupture; Obstetrics Elmer Press 2011-10 2011-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3279491/ /pubmed/22383917 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr509w Text en Copyright 2011, Spyridopoulos et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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