TY - JOUR AU - DAROUGAR, S AB - British Medical Bulletin (1983) Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 159-162 PERIHEPATITIS / P Bolton & S Darougar recognized by, and was probably unknown to, the majority of prac- tising clinicians. The last five years have seen renewed interest in the Curtis-Fitz- Hugh syndrome, probably as a result of its increasing incidence and the recognition that C. trachomatis, as well as Neisseria gonor- rhoeae, may be causative organisms. The combination of right upper-quadrant abdominal pain and perihepatitis in association J P BOLTON MSc FRCS with genital tract infection is now referred to as the Curtis-Fitz- Hugh syndrome, irrespective of which organism is cultured from Chase Farm Hospital the genital tract. Enfield, Middlesex 2 Local Findings in Perihepatitis S DAROUGAR MD DTMH FRCPath a Laparotomy Findings Sub-Department of Virology Curtis, a Chicago gynaecologist, published in 1930 a report of an Institute of Ophthalmology, London observation made at routine laparotomy in patients undergoing gynaecological operations. He described his practice of making a careful and gentle examination of all the intra-abdominal organs Background when the abdomen was opened, and that this routine had led him to Local findings in pcrihepatitis the discovery of frequent "violin string" adhesions between the a Laparotomy findings anterior TI - PERIHEPATITIS JF - British Medical Bulletin DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a071809 DA - 1983-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/perihepatitis-cZnSLXBlUa SP - 159 EP - 162 VL - 39 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -