title: [Vaginal ultrasound in perityphlitic abscess].
abstract: A 21 year-old woman presented with an encapsulated mass involving the right ovary, tube and caecum. On transvaginal sonography a 15 mm-target structure was surrounded by irregular, echo-poor formations suggestive of an inflamed appendix and a perityphlitic abscess. Transvaginal sonography is of diagnostic value in differentiating an appendiceal abscess from a right-sided tubo-ovarian abscess.
authors.affiliation: Geburtshilflich-Gynäkologische Universitätsklinik, Universität Graz.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hönigl
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rosanelli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lax
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D018784:Abdominal Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D001062:Appendectomy; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D001065:Appendix / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019160:Endosonography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery