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Small bowel obstruction and perforation attributed to tubo-ovarian abscess following 'D’ and 'C’

We report the case of a young woman who was admitted because of small bowel obstruction and localized peritonitis following a dilatation and curettage ('D’ and 'C’) of uterus in abortion. As infection, like tubo-ovarian abscess may complicate any abortion, it seems wise to ensure that it d...

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Autores principales: Weledji, Elroy Patrick, Elong, Felix
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24107403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-8-41
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description We report the case of a young woman who was admitted because of small bowel obstruction and localized peritonitis following a dilatation and curettage ('D’ and 'C’) of uterus in abortion. As infection, like tubo-ovarian abscess may complicate any abortion, it seems wise to ensure that it does not exist prior to performing a 'D’ and 'C’.
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spelling pubmed-38527622013-12-06 Small bowel obstruction and perforation attributed to tubo-ovarian abscess following 'D’ and 'C’ Weledji, Elroy Patrick Elong, Felix World J Emerg Surg Review We report the case of a young woman who was admitted because of small bowel obstruction and localized peritonitis following a dilatation and curettage ('D’ and 'C’) of uterus in abortion. As infection, like tubo-ovarian abscess may complicate any abortion, it seems wise to ensure that it does not exist prior to performing a 'D’ and 'C’. BioMed Central 2013-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3852762/ /pubmed/24107403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-8-41 Text en Copyright © 2013 Weledji and Elong; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Small bowel obstruction and perforation attributed to tubo-ovarian abscess following 'D’ and 'C’
title_full Small bowel obstruction and perforation attributed to tubo-ovarian abscess following 'D’ and 'C’
title_fullStr Small bowel obstruction and perforation attributed to tubo-ovarian abscess following 'D’ and 'C’
title_full_unstemmed Small bowel obstruction and perforation attributed to tubo-ovarian abscess following 'D’ and 'C’
title_short Small bowel obstruction and perforation attributed to tubo-ovarian abscess following 'D’ and 'C’
title_sort small bowel obstruction and perforation attributed to tubo-ovarian abscess following 'd’ and 'c’
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24107403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-8-41
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