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In cases of acute adnexitis laparoscopy is an excellent diagnostic method. By this way we found in 182 patients with clinical symptoms only 50,5% acute inflammatory diseases of adnexa. On the other hand there was a normal genital status in 18,1%, acute appendicitis in 9,9%, ectopic pregnancy in 7,7% etc. Clinical examinations and second-look-laparoscopy 6--8 weeks after ending the treatment cases of salpingitis alone showed the best results. Patients with more extensive inflammatory reactions had more adhesions too. An early diagnosis and treatment under hospital conditions is recommended. We have good experiences with immediately operation in cases of suppurative inflammation of the adnexa, which are only diagnosticate by laparoscopy.
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PMID:[Diagnosis and therapy of acute adnexitis using laparoscopy]. 15 52

The association of ectopic pregnancy and acute appendicitis has seldom been discussed in literature. This report presents 2 patients who had simultaneous right tubal pregnancies and acute periappendicitis. The cases reported here suggest the possibility that an ectopic pregnancy can produce an inflammatory reaction of the appendix. Ectopic pregnancy as an etiological stimulus for acute appendicitis is discussed. The advisability of examining the appendix at the time of surgery for pelvic disease, and performing an appendectomy at the same time, if pathology of the appendix is suspected, is emphasized. The use of elective appendectomy in surgery for ectopic pregnancy is reviewed.
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PMID:Ectopic pregnancy as an etiologic agent in appendicitis. 42 25

Diagnostic laparoscopy in 96 pregnant women with suspected acute appendicitis revealed inflammation of the vermiform process only in two (2.1%) of them. In 81 cases acute surgical diseases of the abdominal organs were not found, extrauterine pregnancy was revealed in 9 and other diseases of the abdominal organs were detected in 4 cases. The threat of abortion was mistaken for acute appendicitis most frequently. Unjustified operation in such cases intensifies still more the signs of the threat of abortion. Analysis allows the assertion that the laparoscopic method should be decisive in the examination of pregnant women with a doubtful clinical diagnosis in suspected acute appendicitis. Laparoscopy is indicated when the reserves of the generally accepted clinical methods and noninvasive instrumental examination do not allow the diagnosis of acute appendicitis to be established or excluded; it is also recommended in establishing the exact diagnosis and determining the approach and volume of an operative intervention when there is a clinical picture of an acute surgical disease of the abdominal cavity.
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PMID:[Laparoscopy in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in pregnant women]. 138 16

On the basis of his own observations and experience, compared with literary data from recent years, the author think that the most proper planning of prophylactic measures in connection with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) could be carried out after thorough study and good knowledge of risk factors and groups. Some with special medico-social significance are outlined among them: age groups up to 20,20--24 and 25--29 years; sexual education and behaviour, delivery and postpartal period, intrauterine diagnostic and therapeutic manipulations, intrauterine contraceptive devices, abdominal operative interventions with special significance of the operations for acute appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy; latent, clinically unsuspected, or accompanying other diseases PID. The necessity of effective cooperation between a gynecologist and physicians from other specialties (surgeons, internists, urologists, etc.) for timely establishment of a latent disease, examination of a sexual partner, ect. Important condition for effective work is improvement of the functional connections and bilateral information between polyclinic obstetric-gynecological sector gynecological ward.
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PMID:[Pelvic inflammatory disease--prophylactic trends]. 274 84

A total of 40 patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease (acute PID) were examined over a period of 7 months to determine the diagnostic value of laparoscopic examination in these cases. The most important findings were: the clinical diagnosis of acute PID was confirmed by laparoscopy in 55% of patients; laparoscopy was especially of value in differentiating potentially lethal conditions such as ectopic pregnancy and acute appendicitis from acute PID in 15% of patients; laparoscopically obtained microbiological specimens provide a more accurate means of determining the microbiological aetiology of acute PID than vaginally obtained specimens.
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PMID:The value of laparoscopy in the diagnosis of acute pelvic inflammatory disease. 295 32

Interstitial pregnancy is an infrequent type of ectopic pregnancy. Two cases of acute abdomen due to ruptured interstitial pregnancy following salpingectomy, a rare event, are presented. Both patients were young women who had had a previous salpingo-oophorectomy due to ovarian cyst. The presenting symptoms were in the first case abdominal pain followed by hemorrhagic shock, and in the second a right iliac fossa syndrome simulating acute appendicitis. Surgical intervention consisted of wedge resection of the uterine segment involved. A review of the literature and practical considerations are presented.
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PMID:Acute abdomen in ruptured interstitial pregnancy following unilateral salpingectomy. 366 74

On the basis of an analysis of 84 observations the authors describe special features of the clinical course and diagnosis of gynecological diseases simulating acute appendicitis (rupture of the ovary, extrauterine pregnancy, torsion or rupture of the ovarian cyst, adnexitis).
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PMID:[Erroneous diagnosis of acute appendicitis in acute gynecological diseases]. 401 10

At the University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, laparoscopy has been routinely used as a diagnostic aid in cases for acute pelvic inflammatory disease since 1960. No significant complications have been encountered. The material of the study comprises 905 cases covering an 8 year period, 1960-1967. The operation was always performed under general anesthesia. The laparoscope was inserted in the midline below the umbilicus and a cannula inserted 10 cm laterally to manipulate the pelvic organs. A previous clinical diagnosis was required. In 814 cases acute inflammatory disease was suspected on clinical grounds. In 532 of these cases (65%) acute salpingitis was visually confirmed. Observation through the instrument was seldom difficult or uncertain. In 98 cases (12%) laparoscopy revealed other pathologic conditions. In 184 cases (23%) no pathologic changes were found. In another 91 cases acute salpingitis was found unexpectedly at laparoscopy (or in some cases by exploratory laparotomy) undertaken on other provisional clinical diagnoses. Altogether 623 patients were visually diagnosed as having acute salpingitis. Acute appendicitis was found in 24 cases, ectopic pregnancy in 11 cases, pelvic endometriosis in 16 cases, and several other pelvic disorders occasionally. In the total series of 623 confirmed cases of acute salpingitis 223 (365) were of gonococcal origin. These were mostly in the younger, unmarried, and nulliparous patients. Previous curettage was responsible for most othe r cases. The authors conclude that the diagnosis of acute adnexal inflammation based on commonly accepted clinical criteria was found inaccurate to an unsatisfactory high degree as 12% proved to have other disorders, several of a serious nature. Also 23% had no inflammatory reaction of the tubes or other pelvic structures leaving 65% of cases correctly diagnosed on clinical grounds. The prognosis as to later tubal patency varied with the stage of development of the salpingitis. Later studies show that patency was more frequent in cases of salpingitis diagnosed and treated early before adnexal swelling or mass was diagnosed clinically. Gonococcal cases showed a lower subsequent bilateral occlusion than others. 5 of the salpingitis patients were later operated on for ectopic pregnancy.
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PMID:Objectivized diagnosis of acute pelvic inflammatory disease. Diagnostic and prognostic value of routine laparoscopy. 424 30

Differential diagnosis of acute appendicitis and acute gynecological diseases frequently presents great difficulties since they often have similar symptoms. The attention of nubile women should be given to gynecological anamnesis, vaginal and rectal methods of examination in admission. In certain cases women admitted with the diagnosis of acute appendicitis, should be dynamically observed. When necessary, a repeated gynecological examination must be made. With symptoms of acute appendicitis and internal hemorrhage the laparotomy by Lennard's incision of inferio-median laparotomy is indicated. The process with secondary changes during extrauterine pregnancy should be ablated.
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PMID:[Difficulties and errors of diagnosis of acute appendicitis and gynecologic diseases]. 722 12

Incidental appendectomy at the time of surgery for ectopic pregnancy can be performed safely in the appropriately selected patient. The added procedure does not place the patient at increased operative risk and spares her from the possible subsequent development of acute appendicitis.
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PMID:Incidental appendectomy at the time of surgery for ectopic pregnancy. 735 9


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