[Acute torsion of hydrosalpinx. 2 cases after laparoscopic sterilization]

We report on two laparoscopically sterilised patients who presented with increasing lower abdominal pain and sonographically proven adnexal masses. The first patient, who had been sterilised two years ago, underwent primary laparotomy. The mass was found to correspond to the cystically altered distal part of the right sterilised tube being torquated twice. Standard salpingectomy was performed. On the second patient, sterilised ten years before presentation at our clinic, we performed laparoscopy because of the suspected diagnosis of a pyosalpinx. In this case we found a torsion of the ampullary part of the left tube, which was subsequently removed by laparoscopy.