Sepsis Due to Port-Site Abscess in Laparoscopic Pelvic Lymphadenectomy: A Case Report

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Eduardo Gonzalez Bosquet Laia Grau Paulino Sousa Cacheiro

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Eduardo Gonzalez Bosquet
Obstetric and gynecology Department, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, University of Barcelona, Spain

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Port-site infection is one of the most frequent complications in gynaecological laparoscopy. We present a rare case of port-site infection complicated by an abdominal wall abscess and sepsis. We conduct a literature review and discuss the difficulties of diagnosis and the management of this clinical situation.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Tue 04, May 2021
Accepted: Tue 18, May 2021
Published: Fri 04, Jun 2021

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© 2023 Eduardo Gonzalez Bosquet. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2021.06.02