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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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Autores principales: Christianakis, Efstratios, Sakelaropoulos, Anastasios, Papantzimas, Constantinos, Pitiakoudis, Michael, Filippou, Georgios, Filippou, Dimitrios, Rizos, Spiros, Paschalidis, Nikolaos
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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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
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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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