title: Laparoscopic management of suspected acute pelvic inflammatory disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the efficacy of acute-phase operative laparoscopy in women with suspected pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
  
  
  METHODS
  Open series (Canadian Task Force classification II-3).
  
  
  METHODS
  University hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-three patients with clinically suspected PID.
  
  
  METHODS
  Acute-phase operative laparoscopy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Laparoscopy confirmed the diagnosis of PID in 20 (61%) patients; 11 (33%) women had other disease and 2 (6%) had no evidence of disease. Laparoscopic procedures in women with PID were pelvic irrigation (all patients), lysis of adhesions (most cases), drainage and irrigation of unilateral or bilateral pyosalpinx (7), drainage and irrigation of tubo-ovarian abscess (3), and extirpation of disease (2). Laparoscopic intervention was also performed in 11 (85%) of 13 women without PID. No major complications occurred.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acute-phase operative laparoscopy provided a final diagnosis in all but three patients (91%).
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki, 00290 Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Molander
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cacciatore
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sjöberg
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paavonen
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*