Differetial diagnostics of inflammatory tubo-ovarian complexes and ovarian cancer

We examined and operated 82 patients with «acute abdomen» symptom hospitalized at the inpatient gynecology department of the Regional Clinical Hospital following emergency visit with provisional diagnosis of circumscribed peritonitis with the evidence of tubo-ovarian complexes. However, intraoperatively 18 patients were diagnosed as having ovarian cancer and 64 patients were diagnosed as having inflammatory tubo-ovarian complex, which resulted in different surgical and post- surgical treatment.