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 findings
Ruptured 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 findings
Appendicitis
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.