Post-Traumatic Rupture of the Ovarian Cyst - Case Report

• Authors: Barbara Madej , Piotr Fijałkowski , Franciszek Burdan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article reports a very rare case of ovarian cyst rupture in 49-year-old woman who had a multiorgan injury during work in her own rural property. The diagnostic problems of the blunt abdominal trauma are discussed.

Keywords

EN

ovarian cyst; blunt abdominal trauma; diagnostic peritoneal lavage; emergency medicine

• Publisher: Index Copernicus International
• Journal: Polish Journal of Surgery
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 630-632

Dates

published

1 - 10 - 2008

online

4 - 5 - 2010

Contributors

author

Barbara Madej

author

Piotr Fijałkowski

• Department of Traumatology, Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński's District Hospital in Lublin

author

Franciszek Burdan

• Department of Anatomy, Medical University in Lublin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10035-008-0088-0