Fig. 8
From: Acute abdominal pain in women of reproductive age: keys to suggest a complication of endometriosis
27-year-old female presenting with acute right lower quadrant pain and elevated CRP. CT (a, b) shows a normal appendix (arrows), but subcutaneous and pelvic fat stranding (star), along with a stellar retractile mass of the right iliac fossa (dotted circle). Surgical exploration found no sign of appendicitis or of right adnexal abnormality, but it revealed inflammatory peritoneal endometriotic implants of the right lower quadrant. A good clinical outcome was achieved with hormonal treatment