Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report

We report an unusual case of an 11-year-old Greek girl with complicated acute appendicitis. The pelvic plastron that had been formatted secondary to appendix perforation was mimicking appendiceal intussusception in the preoperative ultrasound and computed tomography images. Although acute complicate...

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Autores principales: Christianakis, Efstratios, Sakelaropoulos, Anastasios, Papantzimas, Constantinos, Pitiakoudis, Michael, Filippou, Georgios, Filippou, Dimitrios, Rizos, Spiros, Paschalidis, Nikolaos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2546372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18761733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-135
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Sumario:We report an unusual case of an 11-year-old Greek girl with complicated acute appendicitis. The pelvic plastron that had been formatted secondary to appendix perforation was mimicking appendiceal intussusception in the preoperative ultrasound and computed tomography images. Although acute complicated appendicitis and appendiceal intussusception may represent possible causes of acute abdomen no similar cases have reported in the literature.

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