title: A misdiagnosed cause of chronic pelvic pain: abscess with foreign body.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Chronic pelvic pain may present a diagnostic challenge.
  
  
  METHODS
  Academic tertiary care center.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 46-year-old woman presented with pain on micturition and a 15-month history of right-sided pelvic pain aggravated by an abdominal massage. Her course and outcome, aided by use of computed tomography (CT) scan, is described, identifying a 6-cm, mass-like lesion in the right lower quadrant enclosing an ambiguous linear calcified lesion, which on laparotomy revealed a fish bone embedded in a section of the terminal ileum and the perivesical area.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chronic pelvic pain refractory to treatment merits consideration of CT to examine for foreign body.
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Catholic University of College of Medicine, Seoul Department of Surgery, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Catholic University of College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors: Yun Sung
authors: YS
authors: Jo
authors: Gui Se Ra
authors: GS
authors: Lee
authors: Do Sang
authors: DS
authors: Lee
authors: Sa Jin
authors: SJ
authors: Kim
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000209:etiology*; D000818:Animals; D001062:Appendectomy; D001842:Bone and Bones; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002585:Cesarean Section; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D053159:Dysuria / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D007813:Laparotomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D017699:Pelvic Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D000267:Tissue Adhesions / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed