Open AccessPerforated appendicitis during near‐term pregnancy causing necrotizing fasciitis of the lower extremity: a rare complication of a common disease
Author(s) -
Penninga Luit,
Wettergren André
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.1080/00016340600613816
Subject(s) - medicine , fasciitis , surgery , complication , abdomen , thigh , appendicitis , pregnancy , gestation , abdominal pain , pelvis , laparotomy , lower abdominal pain , disarticulation , rare disease , abscess , disease , amputation , genetics , biology
A 33‐year‐old woman presented with pain in the right side of the abdomen at 35 weeks of gestation. She was treated for cystitis. A few days later, her abdominal pain had disappeared; however, she had developed pain in the right thigh and fever. She delivered a healthy child, but postpartum her leg symptoms deteriorated. She was found to have a necrotizing fasciitis, which necessitated disarticulation of the hip. The source of the infection was a perforated appendix.