title: Life-threatening haemoperitoneum secondary to rupture of simple ovarian cyst.
abstract: A 30-year-old woman with no significant medical or family history presented with epigastric pain radiating to the right shoulder tip. She had an acute drop of haemoglobin within 6 h of admission. She was found to be actively bleeding from a ruptured simple ovarian cyst with no other pathology found. Bleeding was stopped by diathermy.
authors.affiliation: CHS, Sunderland, UK.
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nyhsen
authors.affiliation: CHS, Sunderland, UK.
authors.forename: Syed Umair
authors.initials: SU
authors.lastname: Mahmood
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004564:Electrocoagulation; D005260:Female; D006465:Hemoperitoneum / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010048:Ovarian Cysts / Q000150:complications*; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous / Q000150:complications