Solitary caecal diverticulitis as an unusual cause of a right iliac fossa mass: a case report

Inflammation of a solitary caecal diverticulum is an uncommon pathological condition. Preoperatively the condition is almost indistinguishable from appendicitis, and is often confused with carcinoma of the caecum during operation. The typical patient with this condition is male, Asian, and in the fo...

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Autor principal: Kurer, Mohamed A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2170446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17996114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-132
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description Inflammation of a solitary caecal diverticulum is an uncommon pathological condition. Preoperatively the condition is almost indistinguishable from appendicitis, and is often confused with carcinoma of the caecum during operation. The typical patient with this condition is male, Asian, and in the fourth decade of life. This case is unusual in that the patient was a 26-year-old Caucasian man.
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spelling pubmed-21704462008-01-01 Solitary caecal diverticulitis as an unusual cause of a right iliac fossa mass: a case report Kurer, Mohamed A J Med Case Reports Case Report Inflammation of a solitary caecal diverticulum is an uncommon pathological condition. Preoperatively the condition is almost indistinguishable from appendicitis, and is often confused with carcinoma of the caecum during operation. The typical patient with this condition is male, Asian, and in the fourth decade of life. This case is unusual in that the patient was a 26-year-old Caucasian man. BioMed Central 2007-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2170446/ /pubmed/17996114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-132 Text en Copyright © 2007 Kurer; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Solitary caecal diverticulitis as an unusual cause of a right iliac fossa mass: a case report
title Solitary caecal diverticulitis as an unusual cause of a right iliac fossa mass: a case report
title_full Solitary caecal diverticulitis as an unusual cause of a right iliac fossa mass: a case report
title_fullStr Solitary caecal diverticulitis as an unusual cause of a right iliac fossa mass: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Solitary caecal diverticulitis as an unusual cause of a right iliac fossa mass: a case report
title_short Solitary caecal diverticulitis as an unusual cause of a right iliac fossa mass: a case report
title_sort solitary caecal diverticulitis as an unusual cause of a right iliac fossa mass: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2170446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17996114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-132
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