Appendicitis after laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy-coincidence or complication.
Diagnosis of appendicitis, particularly in young women, may be challenging. In case of abdominal pain in the postoperative period of laparoscopic surgery, one should not only think of complications such as bleeding and injury of the bowel but also such as acute appendicitis. We report a case of a 26-year-old female patient with a post-laparoscopic acute appendicitis with appendicolithiasis 3 days after a laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy during which the appendix appeared inconspicuous. Appendicitis after gynecologic laparoscopy is a rare but potentially dangerous condition. One should consider the possibility of a postoperative appendicitis in case of an acute abdomen after laparoscopic surgery. Further studies might be of value to re-evaluate incidental appendectomy especially in cases of appendicolithiasis.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland dalia-gallmann@hotmail.com.
Dalia Mirjam
DM
Gallmann
Klinik Hirslanden, Zürich, Switzerland.
Kurt-Aurel
KA
Stoessel
Klinik Hirslanden, Zürich, Switzerland.
Othmar
O
Schoeb