TY - JOUR
T1 - Acute Salpingitis in a Nonsexually Active Adolescent
AU - Fein, Daniel M.
AU - Sellinger, Catherine
AU - Fagan, Michele J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Acute salpingitis is an uncommon cause of an acute surgical abdomen, especially in an adolescent who is not sexually active. The following is a case of a 12-year-old girl who denied sexual activity, had a remote history of an appendectomy, and a recent diagnosis of a large, right-sided ovarian cyst, who presented with acute abdominal pain, urinary symptoms, and fever. The patient was ill-appearing and progressed to uncompensated septic shock in the emergency department despite aggressive fluid resuscitation and empiric antibiotics. She ultimately underwent an exploratory laparotomy and was diagnosed with acute bilateral salpingitis. This case highlights the diagnostic dilemmas facing those caring for an adolescent girl with abdominal pain and presents an extremely rare etiology for abdominal pain in a nonsexually active adolescent.
AB - Acute salpingitis is an uncommon cause of an acute surgical abdomen, especially in an adolescent who is not sexually active. The following is a case of a 12-year-old girl who denied sexual activity, had a remote history of an appendectomy, and a recent diagnosis of a large, right-sided ovarian cyst, who presented with acute abdominal pain, urinary symptoms, and fever. The patient was ill-appearing and progressed to uncompensated septic shock in the emergency department despite aggressive fluid resuscitation and empiric antibiotics. She ultimately underwent an exploratory laparotomy and was diagnosed with acute bilateral salpingitis. This case highlights the diagnostic dilemmas facing those caring for an adolescent girl with abdominal pain and presents an extremely rare etiology for abdominal pain in a nonsexually active adolescent.
KW - acute abdomen
KW - pelvic inflammatory disease
KW - salpingitis
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U2 - 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000631
DO - 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000631
M3 - Article
C2 - 26626893
AN - SCOPUS:84949559358
SN - 0749-5161
VL - 31
SP - 853
EP - 855
JO - Pediatric Emergency Care
JF - Pediatric Emergency Care
IS - 12
ER -