A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction Secondary to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Small bowel obstruction (SBO) secondary to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a rare complication only reported on a few occasions. We presented a 38-year-old female with an acute abdomen secondary to PID diagnosed via CT and MRI abdomen. The patient was treated in a conservative manner and recove...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Ahmed K, Elkhair, Ahamed M, Adam, Omeralfaroug, Ghandour, Mohamedanwar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Obstetrics/Gynecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8054941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33884236
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13983
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author Ahmed, Ahmed K
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description Small bowel obstruction (SBO) secondary to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a rare complication only reported on a few occasions. We presented a 38-year-old female with an acute abdomen secondary to PID diagnosed via CT and MRI abdomen. The patient was treated in a conservative manner and recovered with no further complications. In our case, the learning point is the consideration of such an etiology in women with no previous surgical history presenting with an acute abdomen.
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spelling pubmed-80549412021-04-20 A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction Secondary to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Ahmed, Ahmed K Elkhair, Ahamed M Adam, Omeralfaroug Ghandour, Mohamedanwar Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Small bowel obstruction (SBO) secondary to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a rare complication only reported on a few occasions. We presented a 38-year-old female with an acute abdomen secondary to PID diagnosed via CT and MRI abdomen. The patient was treated in a conservative manner and recovered with no further complications. In our case, the learning point is the consideration of such an etiology in women with no previous surgical history presenting with an acute abdomen. Cureus 2021-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8054941/ /pubmed/33884236 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13983 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ahmed et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 author and source are credited.
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A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction Secondary to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
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topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
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