WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for May, 2001: Re: Accidental Ligament Cutting during Tubal Ligation...

Re: Accidental Ligament Cutting during Tubal Ligation...

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 3 May 2001 20:59:18 -0500 (CDT)

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In reply to: crozzz5: "Accidental Ligament Cutting during Tubal Ligation..."

At Thu, 3 May 2001, crozzz5 wrote: >
>During a Tubal Ligation about eight years ago, the physician accidently
>cut and cauterized a ligament to my left ovary...and didnt tell me about
>it until weeks later when I complained of pain in the area (pain that
>periodically returns even now)...At the time, the doctor said it should
>not cause any problems with my health later on.

Unless the tube was also cauterized, pregnancy could occur.

>Last year I went to another ob/gyn for a routine check-up and mentioned
>the pain I'd been having and the fact that my PMS is severe every other
>month...so, I then had an ultra-sound and the ovary could not be seen.
>Then the tech saw "something" oblong shaped "on the outside" of the
>abdomen higher up then where the ovary should be. Ultimately I was told
>not to worry about it and to have it checked out later on because an
>ovary can "move" depending on where a woman is in her cycle.
>Does this sound logical to you and could there be any correlation
>between the accidental ligament cutting/cauterizing and the strange
>location and shape of the ovary, if that is what it is?

I would doubt it.

The original >physician has since retired.

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R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG  FOG

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