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TORSION AND INFARCTION OF THE NORMAL OVARY: A Cause of the Acute Abdomen

TORSION AND INFARCTION OF THE NORMAL OVARY: A Cause of the Acute Abdomen Abstract WHILE acute abdominal symptoms are not infrequently due to torsion of an ovarian cyst, such symptoms from spontaneous torsion of the pedicle of a normal ovary are rare. Downer and Brines,3 in 1931, collected 18 cases from the literature which they considered to be true examples of torsion of the normal ovary. They included only children and young unmarried girls, in order to exclude the possibility of inflammatory disease of the adnexa as a possible predisposing cause of torsion. Their patients ranged in age from 4 months to 16 years. In addition, they reported a case of their own in a 7-year-old girl. Baron1 also reported an instance of torsion of a normal ovary in a 7-year-old girl, and, later, torsion and infarction in the remaining ovary of the same child.2 Another example occurring in a 7-year-old child was briefly reported by Smith4 in 1950. We References 1. Baron, C.: Torsion of a Normal Ovary and Tube with Rupture of the Ovary , Kentucky M. J. 30:233, 1932. 2. Baron, C.: Torsion of the Normal Ovary , J. A. M. A. 102:1675, 1934.Crossref 3. Downer, I. G., and Brines, O. A.: Torsion of Undiseased Uterine Adnexa in Virgins , Am. J. Obst. & Gynec. 21:665, 1931. 4. Smith, D. S.: Torsion of the Fallopian Tube and Ovary with Infarction of the Ovary , J. Pediat. 36:521, 1950. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children American Medical Association

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0096-6916
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10.1001/archpedi.1956.02060030051011
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Abstract WHILE acute abdominal symptoms are not infrequently due to torsion of an ovarian cyst, such symptoms from spontaneous torsion of the pedicle of a normal ovary are rare. Downer and Brines,3 in 1931, collected 18 cases from the literature which they considered to be true examples of torsion of the normal ovary. They included only children and young unmarried girls, in order to exclude the possibility of inflammatory disease of the adnexa as a possible predisposing cause of torsion. Their patients ranged in age from 4 months to 16 years. In addition, they reported a case of their own in a 7-year-old girl. Baron1 also reported an instance of torsion of a normal ovary in a 7-year-old girl, and, later, torsion and infarction in the remaining ovary of the same child.2 Another example occurring in a 7-year-old child was briefly reported by Smith4 in 1950. We References 1. Baron, C.: Torsion of a Normal Ovary and Tube with Rupture of the Ovary , Kentucky M. J. 30:233, 1932. 2. Baron, C.: Torsion of the Normal Ovary , J. A. M. A. 102:1675, 1934.Crossref 3. Downer, I. G., and Brines, O. A.: Torsion of Undiseased Uterine Adnexa in Virgins , Am. J. Obst. & Gynec. 21:665, 1931. 4. Smith, D. S.: Torsion of the Fallopian Tube and Ovary with Infarction of the Ovary , J. Pediat. 36:521, 1950.

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A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children – American Medical Association

Published: Jul 1, 1956

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