Tuberculosis is a disease with myriad presentations and manifestations; it can affect any organ or tissue, excluding only hair and nails. Doctors who are not familiar with extrapulmonary tuberculosis often overlook this disease. Urogenital tuberculosis (UGTB) is the second most common form of TB in countries with severe epidemic situation and the third most common form in regions with low incid...

OBJECTIVE Pelvic abscess during pregnancy is an uncommon complication, but can lead to adverse perinatal outcomes during pregnancy. CASE REPORT We present a patient who developed rupture of a tubo-ovarian abscess during pregnancy following in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer. Thirty-eight reported cases are reviewed, and transvaginal oocyte retrieval, genital tract infections, endometr...

Although adjacent organ fistulas such as the rectovaginal and vesico-vaginal fistula could be seen after hysterectomy, enterocutaneous fistulas are rarely encountered. In literature, enterocutaneous fistulas those are seen after hysterectomy are reported in association to underlying diseases such as tubo-ovarian abscess, coloovarian cyst fistula, diverticular disease and malignancy. In this rep...

BACKGROUND Supracervical hysterectomy is seldom performed and there are few reports of tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA) after supracervical hysterectomy. CASE The case of a 49-year-old woman with a right TOA is reported. This patient had received a supracervical hysterectomy 16 years earlier due to rupture of the uterus. At this admission, she presented with complaints of, lower abdominal pain and ...

Healthy unmarried 29-year-old female presented with complaints of non-cyclical dull aching pain on and off for 6 months in supra pubic region and Right iliac fossa. Pain was not associated with fever, vomiting, loss of weight, or appetite. There were no complaints related to urinary tract. Her periods were regular with normal menstrual flow. There was no significant past history except history ...

OBJECTIVE To study the microbial etiology of tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA). METHODS We recruited 11 women in Nairobi, Kenya who failed antibiotic therapy alone and required surgical drainage of a presumptive TOA. Pus from the nine abscesses and two pyosalpinges were collected and cultured for aerobic, facultative and anaerobic microorganisms. RESULTS Eleven women suspected of having a TOA were...