Research Article

Transvaginal Ultrasound in Fertile Patients with Suspected Appendicitis: An Experience Report of Current Practice

Table 2

Postoperative diagnoses of patients requiring a diagnostic laparoscopy.

Patients requiring a laparoscopy, in Total
Positive transvaginal ultrasound ( )Negative transvaginal ultrasound1 ( )

Gynaecological findingsRuptured ovarian cyst*   Ruptured ovarian cyst (left side)*  
Nonruptured ovarian cyst   Nonruptured ovarian cyst  
Haemorrhagic necrosis, right salpinx*   Adnexitis  
Endometriosis  
Right-sided tuboovarian abscess*  
Uterine fibrosis2  
Haemorrhagic corpus luteum*  

Other findingsAppendicitis  
No abdominal pathology  

1Indicates patients in whom diagnostic laparoscopy was performed by general surgeons following a negative transvaginal ultrasound.
2This patient underwent total laparoscopic hysterectomy without oophorectomy.
*Indicates a true gynecological emergency.