Laparoscopic management of an endometrioma complicated by an ovarian abscess

Rameshvari Shah, Jitesh Shah, Meghana Mehta
In: International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2013 · pp. 473–474 · doi:10.5455/2320-1770.ijrcog20130950 · W2166002909
article OA: diamond CC0 ⤵ 2 in-corpus citations
🔓 Open OA copy Full text JSON View on OpenAlex View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by qwen3.7-flash, 2026-08-30 ⓘ

This paper describes the laparoscopic management of an endometrioma complicated by an ovarian abscess, distinguishing between unruptured cases manageable via surgery and ruptured cases requiring aggressive surgical intervention.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

⚙ AI-generated deep summary by qwen3.7-flash, 2026-08-30 · read from full text ⓘ

This paper discusses the clinical management of ovarian abscesses, distinguishing between primary infections and those complicated by endometriomas. It outlines that unruptured cases can be treated via laparoscopy or laparotomy, while ruptured abscesses require aggressive surgical intervention to address diffuse peritonitis. The text highlights risk factors such as capsule disruption and notes the diagnostic challenges associated with unruptured presentations. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — specifically focusing on the rare complication where an endometrioma becomes infected and forms an ovarian abscess.

Read from the paper's body, not the abstract. Not a substitute for reading the paper. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

An ovarian abscess is defined as a primary infection of the ovary without the involvement of the fallopian tube. The possible factors for the cause of ovarian abscess are: disruption of the ovarian capsule, giving access to bacteria, haematogenous and lymphatic spread. A woman with a ruptured ovarian abscess presents with features of diffuse peritonitis. An unruptured abscess is more difficult to diagnose. Unruptured abscess can be dealt with either laparotomy or laparoscopy. Ruptured ovarian abscess requires an aggressive and primarily surgical approach.
Full text 1,718 characters · extracted from oa-doi-fallback · 2 sections · click to expand

Keywords

Ovarian abscess, Tubo-ovarian abscess, EndometriomaAbstract An ovarian abscess is defined as a primary infection of the ovary without the involvement of the fallopian tube. The possible factors for the cause of ovarian abscess are: disruption of the ovarian capsule, giving access to bacteria, haematogenous and lymphatic spread. A woman with a ruptured ovarian abscess presents with features of diffuse peritonitis. An unruptured abscess is more difficult to diagnose. Unruptured abscess can be dealt with either laparotomy or laparoscopy. Ruptured ovarian abscess requires an aggressive and primarily surgical approach. Metrics

References

Dicker D, Dekel A, Orvieto R, Bar-hava I, Feldberg D, Ben- Rafael Z. Ovarian abscess after ovum retrieval for in-vitro fertilization. Hum Reprod. 1998;13:1813-4. Vimala N, Kothari N, Mittal S, Kumar S, Dadhwal V. Primary ovarian abscess in pregnancy. JK science 2004;6:40-2. Kavoussi SK, Pearlman MD, Burke WM, Lebovic DI. Endometrioma complicated by tubo-0varian abscess in a woman with bacterial vaginosis. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol 2006;2006:84140. Kubota T, Ishi K, Takeuchi H. A study of tubo-ovarian and ovarian abscesses with a focus on cases with endomertioma. J Obstet Gynecol Res.1997 Oct;23(5):421-6. Chen MJ, Yang JH, Yang YS, Ho HN. Increased occurrence of tubo-ovarian abscesses in women with stage III and IV endometriosis. Fertil Steril. 2004 Aug;82(2):498-9. Mikamo M, Kawazoe K, Sato Y, Itoh M, Tamaya T. Ovarian abscess caused by peptostreptococcus magnus following transvaginal ultrasound guided aspiration of ovarian endometrioma. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol 1998;6:66-8.

Text is read by the "Ask this paper" AI Q&A widget below. Extraction quality varies by source — PMC NXML preserves structure cleanly, OA-HTML may include some navigation residue, and OA-PDF can have broken hyphenation. The publisher copy (via DOI) is the canonical version.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

⚙ Ask this paper AI returns verbatim quotes from the full text · source: oa-doi-fallback ⓘ

Answers must be backed by verbatim quotes from this paper's full text. Hallucinated quotes are dropped automatically; if no verbatim passage answers the question, we say so. How this works

Condition tags

endometrioma

Citation neighborhood (sparse)

Too few in-corpus citations on either side for a chart; here are the lists.

Cites (1)

Cited by (2)

References (5)

Cited by (2)

Source provenance

openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK