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VOL. 71 NUMBER 1 January-February  2021

Gangrenous Omental Herniation Caused by Spontaneous Pouch of Douglas Fistula: A Rare Case

Arti Singh1 · Puneet Puri2 · Ashok Kr Singh3

Dr. Arti Singh MS DNB, Consultant: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Regency Hospital Kanpur (UP), India; Dr. Puneet Puri MS, Mch, Consultant: Surgical Gastroenterology, Regency Hospital Kanpur (UP), India; Dr. Ashok Kr Singh MD, DNB, Consultant: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Regency Hospital Kanpur (UP), India.

Arti Singh

dr_arti_rhl@yahoo.co.in

Puneet Puri

rockypuneet@yahoo.co.in

Ashok Kr Singh

dr_ashok_rhl@yahoo.com

1Obstetrics and Gynecology, Regency Hospital Kanpur, Kanpur, UP, India

2Surgical Gastroenterology, Regency Hospital Kanpur, Kanpur, UP, India

3Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Regency Hospital Kanpur, Kanpur, UP, India

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Arti Singh Dr. Arti Singh MS, DNB, is working as senior Con-sultant and Head of department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Regency Hospital, Kanpur, for the past 20 years. She has special interest in High Risk Pregnan-cies and Obstetric Critical Care Medicine. She has participated and organized various work-shops, conferences, and CMEs at local and national level, and has many publications in national journals.

Eighty-two-year-old female, multipara, presented with urosepsis. Pelvic assessment revealed foul-smelling, dirty-looking polypoidal mass protruding through vagina, which looked like a neoplastic lesion (Fig. 1). Ultrasound abdo-men was normal, but MRI revealed omentum present in the Pouch of Douglas, protruding into the vagina through its posterior wall (Fig. 2a, b). During surgery omentum was dissected, necrotic part was excised and then reposited back into abdomen, followed by the closure of the defect in pos-terior vaginal wall. Histopathological examination revealed gangrenous omentum with no evidence of malignancy or granulomatous pathology. On follow-up, the patient was completely asymptomatic.

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