Salpingitis in an Adolescent Female With Constipation and Abdominal Pain

Gal Barak, Matthew R. Carroll, Andrea Dean
In: JPGN Reports · 2022 · vol. 3(4) , pp. e271 · doi:10.1097/pg9.0000000000000271 · PMID:37168476 · W4318601642
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Abstract

Abdominal pain is one of the most common presenting complaints in the emergency room for pediatric patients. While constipation is one of the most common causes for abdominal pain in pediatrics, serious intra-abdominal pathology must always be excluded. We report a pre-coital post-menarchal adolescent female who presented with severe abdominal pain and constipation and had radiographic findings of salpingitis. It was suspected that uterine and adnexal changes seen on imaging resulted from the fecal mass compressing the genitourinary tract leading to fluid collection manifesting as radiographic evidence of salpingitis. This mechanism is similar to bladder outlet obstruction resulting from compression by intestinal stool burden, leading to urinary stasis, bacteriuria, and ascending urinary tract infection. This case demonstrates how a common pediatric problem, constipation, can lead to a condition rarely found in the pre-coital adolescent population.

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