TY  - JOUR
T1  - PErihepatitis and salpingitis
AU  - Fribourg S
Y1  - 1979/01/26
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1979.03290300013010
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 359
EP  - 360
VL  - 241
IS  - 4
N2  - To the Editor.— 
    Drs Litt and Cohen in their recent report have based their diagnosis of salpingitis on "the triad of lower abdominal pain, bilateral pelvic adnexal tenderness, and tenderness on motion of the uterine cervix." The diagnosis of perihepatitis "was confirmed in one patient and made in another patient who underwent laparoscopy." In all the other patients in the report, the diagnosis of perihepatitis was only presumptive and not so confirmed.Jacobson and Weström,1 using many more criterions than the aforementioned triad to make a provisional diagnosis of salpingitis, found at laparoscopic examination of 905 such patients that 35% did not have salpingitis, 23% had no pathological changes, and 12% had other disease. Salpingitis was confirmed in 65% of the cases reviewed. This report has served me well by casting doubt in my mind when I am certain, on the basis of whatever clinical criterions I wish to
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290300013010
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290300013010
ER  -