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This study aims to describe the clinical presentation, physical examination, emergency management, radiographic and intraoperative findings, histopathology reports and the time-to-intervention metrics of OT cases presenting to the emergency room of our tertiary care center. Data was collected by a retrospective chart review of all OT cases that presented to our ED over a period of 1 year. A total of 20 cases were included in the final analysis. The incidence of OT in the ED was 157.4 per 100 000 visits of women in the reproductive age group. All patients were women of reproductive age, with a mean age of 27.3 years. A total of 15 patients (78.9%) presented within 24 hours of symptom onset. The most common presenting symptom was abdominal pain (95%, 19\/20) with most localizing to the right lower quadrant (60%, 12\/20), followed by nausea and vomiting (90%, 18\/20). Almost all patients (95%, 19\/20) required opioids for pain management. The majority (80%, 16\/20) were diagnosed by ultrasound prior to surgery, whereas (20%, 4\/20) went straight to surgery based on a high index of clinical suspicion. Among those who underwent ultrasound, ovarian cyst was present in (75%, 12\/16) while (68.9%, 11\/16) showed ovarian enlargement and (50%, 8\/16) showed abnormal ovarian blood flow. All patients except one patient underwent operative management. Out of the 19 patients who underwent surgery, the majority of patients (94.7%, 18\/19) had viable ovaries with the exception of 1 patient (5.3%) who required a salpingo-oophorectomy post ovarian detorsion. A total of 13 cases included histopathologic review of specimens out of which 6 (46.2%) had a mature cystic teratoma. The mean time from door to ultrasonography was 1.4 hours and from door to surgery was 11.4 hours. 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