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ArticleBMJ case reports2016

Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome lacking typical characteristics of pelvic inflammatory disease.

Hayato Mitaka, Hidetaka Kitazono, Gautam A Deshpande, Eiji Hiraoka

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Hayato MitakaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
Hidetaka KitazonoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
Gautam A DeshpandeDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Eiji HiraokaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 23-year-old Japanese woman, previously a commercial sex worker, presented with a 2-day history of right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain, worse on deep inspiration. She had noticed increased vaginal discharge 2 months earlier and had developed dull, lower abdominal pain 3 weeks prior to presentation. Although pelvic examination and transvaginal ultrasonography revealed neither a tubal nor ovarian pathology, abdominal CT scan with contrast demonstrated early enhancement of the hepatic capsule, a finding pathognomonic for Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome (FHCS). Cervical discharge PCR assay confirmed Chlamydia trachomatis infection. This case highlights that normal gynaecological evaluation may be insufficient to rule out FHCS, for which physicians should have a high index of suspicion when seeing any woman of reproductive age with RUQ pain.

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Abdominal PainAdultAnti-Bacterial AgentsCeftriaxoneChlamydia InfectionsChlamydia trachomatisContact TracingDirective CounselingDoxycyclineDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleHepatitisHumansPelvic Inflammatory DiseasePeritonitisSex WorkAnti-Bacterial AgentsCeftriaxoneDoxycycline

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PMID27335367
PMCPMC4932418

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