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Zenodo
2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15872821 |
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- <p>A 7-year-old female patient was admitted to the hospital with chief complaints of abdominal pain more in the lower quadrants associated with nausea and vomiting for 2 days and gradually worsening in nature. Pain wasn’t associated with food intake, no dysuria, no loose stools, no abdominal distension, no fever. Ultrasonography of her abdomen/ pelvis disclosed bulky left ovary with multiple cystic spaces and adjacent free fluid. The patient’s haematological investigations, and biochemistry tests gave normal results. Her microbiology tests for the viral markers of HIV, HBSAG and HCV were non-reactive i.e., negative. The patient was diagnosed with left ovarian torsion. As it’s an emergency medical condition the patient immediately underwent a surgery of laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy followed by post-operative treatment. Ovarian torsion or twisted ovary or adnexal torsion is a rare but emergency medical condition which happens when an ovary, and sometimes the oviducts twists around the ligaments that hold it in place. These ligaments contain blood vessels and twisting cuts off the blood supply which lead to the loss of an ovary. The patients with ovarian torsion must get immediate surgical treatment because it’s an emergency condition and delay in treatment may lead to necrosis of ovary.</p>