Inverted appendix in a patient with colon cancer: a case report and long-term follow-up

Appendiceal inversion is a rare entity that can potentially mimic serious pathology and provide diagnostic uncertainty. They are mostly diagnosed intraoperatively or during endoscopies and scans for other reasons. We report a case of an asymptomatic patient treated for colon cancer without previous...

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Autores principales: Aljalabneh, Basim, Mureb, Amro, Aljundi, Nadeem, Al-Qasem, Kholoud, Al-Masri, Mahmoud
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10125838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37114088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad206
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author Aljalabneh, Basim
Mureb, Amro
Aljundi, Nadeem
Al-Qasem, Kholoud
Al-Masri, Mahmoud
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description Appendiceal inversion is a rare entity that can potentially mimic serious pathology and provide diagnostic uncertainty. They are mostly diagnosed intraoperatively or during endoscopies and scans for other reasons. We report a case of an asymptomatic patient treated for colon cancer without previous history of appendectomy. We provide long-term follow-up and aim to review the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-101258382023-04-26 Inverted appendix in a patient with colon cancer: a case report and long-term follow-up Aljalabneh, Basim Mureb, Amro Aljundi, Nadeem Al-Qasem, Kholoud Al-Masri, Mahmoud J Surg Case Rep Case Report Appendiceal inversion is a rare entity that can potentially mimic serious pathology and provide diagnostic uncertainty. They are mostly diagnosed intraoperatively or during endoscopies and scans for other reasons. We report a case of an asymptomatic patient treated for colon cancer without previous history of appendectomy. We provide long-term follow-up and aim to review the relevant literature. Oxford University Press 2023-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10125838/ /pubmed/37114088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad206 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Inverted appendix in a patient with colon cancer: a case report and long-term follow-up
title Inverted appendix in a patient with colon cancer: a case report and long-term follow-up
title_full Inverted appendix in a patient with colon cancer: a case report and long-term follow-up
title_fullStr Inverted appendix in a patient with colon cancer: a case report and long-term follow-up
title_full_unstemmed Inverted appendix in a patient with colon cancer: a case report and long-term follow-up
title_short Inverted appendix in a patient with colon cancer: a case report and long-term follow-up
title_sort inverted appendix in a patient with colon cancer: a case report and long-term follow-up
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10125838/
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