Acute abdomen in third trimester of pregnancy—a rare case of perforated Meckel’s diverticulitis

Acute abdomen in pregnancy presents many diagnostic challenges. Non-specific symptoms, anatomical and physiological changes and diagnostic imaging limitations lead to diagnostic uncertainty and delayed diagnosis and treatment. Meckel’s diverticulitis in pregnancy is extremely rare with only 27 cases...

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Autores principales: Turco, Jennifer, Khalil, Ihab, Theophilus, Mary
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/PMC10493077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37701448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad492
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description Acute abdomen in pregnancy presents many diagnostic challenges. Non-specific symptoms, anatomical and physiological changes and diagnostic imaging limitations lead to diagnostic uncertainty and delayed diagnosis and treatment. Meckel’s diverticulitis in pregnancy is extremely rare with only 27 cases reported in literature, only 11 of which are found to be perforated intraoperatively. We present a rare case of a patient in third trimester of pregnancy with perforated Meckel’s diverticulitis.
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spelling pubmed-104930772023-09-11 Acute abdomen in third trimester of pregnancy—a rare case of perforated Meckel’s diverticulitis Turco, Jennifer Khalil, Ihab Theophilus, Mary J Surg Case Rep Case Report Acute abdomen in pregnancy presents many diagnostic challenges. Non-specific symptoms, anatomical and physiological changes and diagnostic imaging limitations lead to diagnostic uncertainty and delayed diagnosis and treatment. Meckel’s diverticulitis in pregnancy is extremely rare with only 27 cases reported in literature, only 11 of which are found to be perforated intraoperatively. We present a rare case of a patient in third trimester of pregnancy with perforated Meckel’s diverticulitis. Oxford University Press 2023-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10493077/ /pubmed/37701448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad492 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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title_full Acute abdomen in third trimester of pregnancy—a rare case of perforated Meckel’s diverticulitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10493077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37701448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad492
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