[Indication for surgical therapy of tubo-ovarian abscess]

It is reported about the indication to operative therapy, therapy-shape and the going of cure of 30 patients suffering from tuboovarian abscesses. At the beginning there is the conservative therapy with general measures immediately dose of antibiotica without waiting for the germ and resistence determinations. However the well timed operative therapy under conditions as well as possible is deciding. As a rule the abdominal exstirpation of the uterus with both adnexe is practiced in order to come to a complete removal of the infection hearth. --The postoperative cours war only febril in one third of the treated women. In 86,7% the laparotomy scare healed per primam intentionem. We didn't observe an extension of the infection post operationem and there were not any complications with letal exit.