CASE REPORT: "APPENDICITIS" POST ABORTION

• Autores: Siu, Alejandro, Escudero, Francisco, Moscoso, Néstor, Reátegui, César
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Sociedad Peruana de Obstetricia y Ginecología
• Repositorio: Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/582
• Enlace del recurso: http://51.222.106.123/index.php/RPGO/article/view/582
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

This case corresponds to the unusual and infrequent one of the most common conditions that warrant acute abdomen surgery presentation. A patient having a history of abortion maneuvers have been conducted eleven days before, presented to emergency with cellulitis on the right side radiating to the back-lumbar region, forming an area of approximately 30 x 15 cm .; not referring other symptoms. Twenty four hours later develop signs of acute abdomen, forty eight hours after an examination under anesthesia and curettage laparotomy was performed; the cause of all this picture: retrocecal perforated appendicitis.