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Case Reports
. 2020 Dec 15:37:347.
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2020.37.347.23100. eCollection 2020.

A new type of abdominal incision for emergencies in pregnancy: a case report

Hasan Yüksel  1 , Tolga Atakul  1 , Emre Zafer  1 , Özgür Deniz Turan  1
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A new type of abdominal incision for emergencies in pregnancy: a case report

Hasan Yüksel et al. Pan Afr Med J. .

Abstract

Adnexal torsion in pregnancy is a rare gynecologic emergency that causes severe abdominal pain. The current paper reports a case of a woman with 18 weeks pregnancy who was referred to our tertiary clinic with sudden lower abdominal pain. Ultrasound scan showed a very large multicystic adnexal torsion mass on the right side displacing the gravid uterus to the anterior left. An oblique paramedian incision was made for right salpingo-oophorectomy. To our knowledge the incision presented in this case has not been described in the literature previously. We suggest an alternative incision to be used during pregnancy especially for emergencies due to an adnexal mass.

Keywords: Abdominal incision; adnexal mass; case report; pregnancy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
multicystic appearance of right adnexal mass, 15x12 cm
Figure 2
Figure 2
anatomic landmarks and the novel oblique abdominal incision (bold line) for adnexal pathologies in pregnancy; CIAS: Crista iliaca anterior superior
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