background: tubo-ovarian abscess as a serious complication of pelvic inflammatory disease is very uncommon in sexually inactive girls. case: we report a case of tubo-ovarian abscess in a 24-year-old sexually inactive girl with transverse vaginal septum who was presented with abdominal pain and a pelvic mass and without prior surgical history and no evidences of appendicitis, inflammatory bowel ...

background:   acute appendicitis with appendicial endometriosis is a very infrequently encountered condition during pregnancy. decidualization is the hypertrophy of endometrial stromal cells by the effect of progesterone. similarly, in pregnancy, ectopic stromal endometrial cells in endometriosis can also be transformed by the same mechanism and ectopic decidua (deciduosis) may occur case: here...

An ovarian abscess is an uncommon surgical emergency that could be lethal. The causes of an ovarian abscess vary, and treatment thereof may unfortunately lead to an oophorectomy. In order to draw the attention of physicians to this rare entity, we present a case of ovarian abscess resulting from follicle aspiration for in-vitro fertilization. Furthermore, with correct preoperative diagnosis and...

Tubo-ovarian abscess in pregnancy is extremely rare. In this report, we present a patient who had asymptomatic tubo-ovarian abscess during pregnancy. It was diagnosed incidentally immediately after vaginal delivery. Emergency laparotomy was followed and surgical findings included a 4 cm-sized, right, ruptured tubo-ovarian abscess with massive purulent contamination of the whole pelvic cavity. R...

We are reporting a rare case of de novo ovarian abscess in an endometrioma. Ovarian abscess within an endometrioma is a rare gynecological problem, but de novo abscess in the endometrioma is even rarer. Most of the ovarian abscesses develop in the endometriomas following interventions, e.g., aspiration, pelvic surgery, and oocyte retrieval. We are presenting a case of a spontaneous giant absces...

background: pelvic inflammatory disease is one of the most serious infection and one of the important and life threatening complications of it is tubo-ovarian abscess. this infection with intrauterine insemination (iui) is rare. we report a case of ruptured tubo- ovarian abscess after (iui). case: a 27 years old woman was referred to our center with acute abdominal pain and fever one week after...

Introduction: A tubo-ovarian abscess reflects an inflammatory adhesion of pelvic organs including the fallopian tube and ovary forming a palpable complex, which represents the ultimate process of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Fistula formation between the sigmoid colon and other pelvic organs such as the bladder, uterus, and ovary is mainly caused by colorectal cancer or diverticulitis. Ho...

BACKGROUND Genital tract infections in females secondary to Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) are unusual. Tubo-ovarian abscess resulting from such an infection is a rare occurrence and diagnosis is not always easy. This report demonstrates the problems of recognizing this condition and summarizes the pathomechanism, investigations leading to a diagnosis and the subsequent management. C...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Post-partum, post-sterilization tubo-ovarian abscess is a rare event. Fusobacterium necrophorum subspecies funduliforme, a normal flora found mainly in the oral cavity, appears to be the etiologic organism. CASE PRESENTATION In this case report, a 25-year-old Thai woman had a post-partum, post-sterilization tubo-ovarian abscess caused by the strictly anaerobic bacte...