Monday, 4 June 2018

CASE 496: POST-PARTUM PELVIS ABSCESS, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.


Woman 29yo experienced  a cesarean operation  for 9 days  with normal primigest  terminal.

And she had got fever and pain at pelvis  and diarrhea (see photo).


US 1 scan at  pelvis :  longitudinal scan  shows that  fluid in abdominal walll as an abscess and a big uterus.


US 2  scan at pelvis :  air in abdominal wall and inside uterus.

US 3: reverberation by the air in abdominal wall.


MSCT with CE   =  CT 1: CROSSED SECTION : AIR  IN ABDOMEN WALL.


CT2 : AIR IN UTERUS.

CT3 : AIR AROUND UTERUS AND  PUS AROUND  PELVIS.



BLOOD TESTS=  WBC  30K  NEUTRO 23.7%  hsCRP 120.5( n 5mg/l).


EMERGENCY  DIAGNOSIS IS PELVIS ABSCESS PULL OUT THE ABDOMEN WALL.
OPERATION  LAPAROTOMY  FOR  REMOVING OF PUS   AND  HYSTERECTOMY.



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