Patient's question:
Recently, I noticed mild pain when lightly pressing the lower right abdomen, feeling a subtle pain in the pelvic area. The acute lower abdominal pain is accompanied by fever, with significant tenderness and rebound tenderness. Blood tests show a decrease in white blood cells. What kind of assistance is needed: If appendicitis is detected, how should it be resolved?Doctor's answer:
Appendicitis refers to inflammation of the fallopian tubes and ovaries, but fallopian tube and ovary inflammation are often split into parametritis and pelvic peritonitis. Moreover, it is difficult to distinguish between them upon diagnosis, so parametritis and pelvic peritonitis are also included in the scope of appendicitis. Among pelvic organ inflammation, tubal inflammation is the most common. Due to the adjacent relationship of autopsy sites, tubal inflammation, ovarian inflammation, and pelvic peritonitis often coexist and mutually influence each other.