A case of Pelvic Actinomycosis Associated with Intrauterine Device. |
Je Yong Park, Sung Joo Kim, Woo Seok Sohn, Jung Bae Kang, Pong Rheem Jang |
Department of Obstretics & Gynecology, college of Medicine, Hallym University, Sacred Heart Hospital, Korea. |
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Abstract |
Actinomycosis is a chronic, progressive, suppurative disease which appears to be difficult to establish a correct preoperative diagnosis. Most of pelvic actinomycosis in women are related to a long time intrauterine device(IUD) inserted state. The causative agent is a branching, gram-positive anaerobic or microaerobic organism, not fungi. Ascending infection of the upper genital tract by actinomycosis may be clinically inapparent. We experienced a case of clinically inapparent tuboovarian actinomycosis in a 47-year-old women with IUD, discovered pathologically after laparotomy. |
Key Words:
pelvic actinomycosis, intrauterine device, tuboovarian abscess |
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