Journal of Surgery

Falciform ligament cysts are very rare, with only 12 cases being reported so far. Patients may be asymptomatic or may present with symptoms such as abdominal pain
and abdominal mass. In this report, we introduce a symptomatic case with abdominal pain. She was diagnosed with falciform ligament cyst using ultrasound imaging
confirmed during laparotomy.

Perforation peritonitis is a common serious condition encountered in day to day surgical practice in any
hospital. One of the reasons for high mortality in these conditions is lack of risk stratifications resulting
in delay in providing adequate management, although a number of scoring systems are available to
stratify these patients according to severity, but most of these cannot be used in developing countries
like India due to their dependency on sophisticated investigation which are usually lacking in most parts
of these countries. So a simple prognostic scoring system which could be easily reproduced without
sophisticated investigations and also provide a reliable objective assessment of severity and operative
risk is required.