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Chlamydial salpingitis and perihepatitis after tubal occlusion
P K Heinonen1, K Teisala, A Miettinen
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Central Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from the distal part of the tube in a patient with salpingitis and perihepatitis 14 months after laparoscopic tubal occlusion. This suggests that chlamydial infection can spread by the lymphatic or hematogenous routes.