Gonococcal infection as a cause of acute abdomen.
Gonococcal infection in the postantibiotic era continues to cause disseminated and severe disease in some patients. The differential diagnosis of pain in the lower abdomen in young women is difficult. Our case report described a 19-year-old patient who presented with acute abdomen as a result of Gonococcal infection, assessed as a local complication, pelveoperitonitis: pelvic inflammatory disease. The message of our case report is sexually transmitted infections should invariably be considered in young women and searched for accordingly.
Surgical Department of the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic. robert.gurlich@ikem.cz
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D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000382:microbiology*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans