Ultrasound findings in perihepatitis associated with pelvic inflammatory disease

✍ Scribed by Alex Schoenfeld; Benjamin Fisch; Maja Cohen; Michael Vardy; Jardena Ovadia

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 424 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870200506

✦ Synopsis

The width of the right anterior extrarenal tissue was increased on ultrasound examination in 9 patients with perihepatitis (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome). Normal values were obtained in 72 women without detectable or known disease and were found to be between 1 mm and 5 mm (mean 1.8 mm). The 9 patients with laparoscopically verified perihepatitis who demonstrated this thickening had values ranging from 6 mm to 12 mm, (mean 7.7 mm). Although the incidence of this inflammatory thickening in perihepatitis is not known, its value is that in its ultrasonic demonstration a careful search should be made for inflammatory disease in structures related to the anterior pararenal space. Indexing Words: Perihepatitis * Extrarenal tissue changes -Pelvic inflammatory disease Perihepatitis associated with pelvic inflammatory disease did not become widely known until the 1930s, when Curtis' described the anatomical findings and Fitz-Hugh2 named the disease gonococcal perihepatitis. Symptoms include pain