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Acute ovarian torsion in young girls

Author(s) -

Smail Acimi

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of acute disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2589-5516

pISSN - 2221-6189

DOI - 10.1016/j.joad.2015.07.006

Subject(s) - medicine , ovarian torsion , torsion (gastropod) , surgical emergency , presentation (obstetrics) , ovary , surgery , emergency surgery

ObjectiveTo get to know about the clinical presentation of ovarian torsion in young girls.MethodsFrom January 2009 to January 2014, 4 patients were treated in our hospital for ovarian torsion. The ages of the patients at surgery were 3, 9, 141, 151 months, with a mean age of 76 months.ResultsIn all cases, the ovary was necrotic at the time of surgery.ConclusionsOvarian torsion is a rare gynecological emergency in children which requires an early surgical intervention to save the ovary from necrosis. Unfortunately, surgical treatment was belated in all our patients

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