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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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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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author | Christianakis, Efstratios Sakelaropoulos, Anastasios Papantzimas, Constantinos Pitiakoudis, Michael Filippou, Georgios Filippou, Dimitrios Rizos, Spiros Paschalidis, Nikolaos |
author_facet | Christianakis, Efstratios Sakelaropoulos, Anastasios Papantzimas, Constantinos Pitiakoudis, Michael Filippou, Georgios Filippou, Dimitrios Rizos, Spiros Paschalidis, Nikolaos |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-25463722008-09-20 Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report Christianakis, Efstratios Sakelaropoulos, Anastasios Papantzimas, Constantinos Pitiakoudis, Michael Filippou, Georgios Filippou, Dimitrios Rizos, Spiros Paschalidis, Nikolaos Cases J 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 complicated appendicitis and appendiceal intussusception may represent possible causes of acute abdomen no similar cases have reported in the literature. BioMed Central 2008-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2546372/ /pubmed/18761733 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-135 Text en Copyright © 2008 Christianakis et al; 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Christianakis, Efstratios Sakelaropoulos, Anastasios Papantzimas, Constantinos Pitiakoudis, Michael Filippou, Georgios Filippou, Dimitrios Rizos, Spiros Paschalidis, Nikolaos Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report |
title | Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report |
title_full | Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report |
title_fullStr | Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report |
title_short | Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report |
title_sort | pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | 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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