Perforated Appendicitis Presenting as a Soft Tissue Infection of the Thigh: An Example of Successful Non-Operative Management

Perforated appendicitis is a rare but serious clinical scenario typically requiring urgent surgical intervention. Herein, we discuss the case of a 62-year-old woman with COVID-19 and ruptured retrocecal appendicitis presenting as a right lower extremity soft tissue infection that was successfully ma...

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Autores principales: Malik, Shray, Harris, Joy E, Vasdev, Ranveer, Rezcallah, Anthony T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10060116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37007349
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35560
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description Perforated appendicitis is a rare but serious clinical scenario typically requiring urgent surgical intervention. Herein, we discuss the case of a 62-year-old woman with COVID-19 and ruptured retrocecal appendicitis presenting as a right lower extremity soft tissue infection that was successfully managed using non-operative measures. This unique case illustrates the feasibility of conservative care - rather than urgent surgical intervention - in the treatment of an atypical presentation of complicated appendicitis in a high-risk patient.
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spelling pubmed-100601162023-03-31 Perforated Appendicitis Presenting as a Soft Tissue Infection of the Thigh: An Example of Successful Non-Operative Management Malik, Shray Harris, Joy E Vasdev, Ranveer Rezcallah, Anthony T Cureus General Surgery Perforated appendicitis is a rare but serious clinical scenario typically requiring urgent surgical intervention. Herein, we discuss the case of a 62-year-old woman with COVID-19 and ruptured retrocecal appendicitis presenting as a right lower extremity soft tissue infection that was successfully managed using non-operative measures. This unique case illustrates the feasibility of conservative care - rather than urgent surgical intervention - in the treatment of an atypical presentation of complicated appendicitis in a high-risk patient. Cureus 2023-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10060116/ /pubmed/37007349 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35560 Text en Copyright © 2023, Malik et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Perforated Appendicitis Presenting as a Soft Tissue Infection of the Thigh: An Example of Successful Non-Operative Management
title Perforated Appendicitis Presenting as a Soft Tissue Infection of the Thigh: An Example of Successful Non-Operative Management
title_full Perforated Appendicitis Presenting as a Soft Tissue Infection of the Thigh: An Example of Successful Non-Operative Management
title_fullStr Perforated Appendicitis Presenting as a Soft Tissue Infection of the Thigh: An Example of Successful Non-Operative Management
title_full_unstemmed Perforated Appendicitis Presenting as a Soft Tissue Infection of the Thigh: An Example of Successful Non-Operative Management
title_short Perforated Appendicitis Presenting as a Soft Tissue Infection of the Thigh: An Example of Successful Non-Operative Management
title_sort perforated appendicitis presenting as a soft tissue infection of the thigh: an example of successful non-operative management
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10060116/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35560
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