Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome Secondary to Postpartum Endometritis: Case Report and Literature Review

We report a case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome (FHCS) 1 week after an urgent cesarean section. Although its onset in the postpartum period is poorly reported in the literature, we suggest that FHCS can complicate puerperal endometritis; therefore, it should be consider in differential diagnosis in pu...

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Autores principales: Amodeo, Silvia, Paci, Giuseppe, Cutaia, Giuseppe, Murmura, Bruno, Cannizzaro, Fabio, Venezia, Renato
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8384018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34485067
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/GMIT.GMIT_58_20
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author Amodeo, Silvia
Paci, Giuseppe
Cutaia, Giuseppe
Murmura, Bruno
Cannizzaro, Fabio
Venezia, Renato
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Paci, Giuseppe
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description We report a case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome (FHCS) 1 week after an urgent cesarean section. Although its onset in the postpartum period is poorly reported in the literature, we suggest that FHCS can complicate puerperal endometritis; therefore, it should be consider in differential diagnosis in puerpera with right upper quadrant pain. Again, it can be useful to perform a contrast computed tomography that allows early diagnosis and conservative treatment.
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spelling pubmed-83840182021-09-02 Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome Secondary to Postpartum Endometritis: Case Report and Literature Review Amodeo, Silvia Paci, Giuseppe Cutaia, Giuseppe Murmura, Bruno Cannizzaro, Fabio Venezia, Renato Gynecol Minim Invasive Ther Case Report We report a case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome (FHCS) 1 week after an urgent cesarean section. Although its onset in the postpartum period is poorly reported in the literature, we suggest that FHCS can complicate puerperal endometritis; therefore, it should be consider in differential diagnosis in puerpera with right upper quadrant pain. Again, it can be useful to perform a contrast computed tomography that allows early diagnosis and conservative treatment. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8384018/ /pubmed/34485067 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/GMIT.GMIT_58_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Amodeo, Silvia
Paci, Giuseppe
Cutaia, Giuseppe
Murmura, Bruno
Cannizzaro, Fabio
Venezia, Renato
Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome Secondary to Postpartum Endometritis: Case Report and Literature Review
title Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome Secondary to Postpartum Endometritis: Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome Secondary to Postpartum Endometritis: Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome Secondary to Postpartum Endometritis: Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome Secondary to Postpartum Endometritis: Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome Secondary to Postpartum Endometritis: Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort fitz-hugh-curtis syndrome secondary to postpartum endometritis: case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8384018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34485067
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/GMIT.GMIT_58_20
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