Subhepatically located appendicitis due to adhesions: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Acute appendicitis occurs frequently and is a major indication for acute abdominal surgery. Subhepatic appendicitis has rarely been reported and is more difficult to diagnose. CASE PRESENTATION: A 71-year-old man with multiple medical comorbidities presented with undifferentiated right...

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Autores principales: Ting, Joseph YS, Farley, Rebecca
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/PMC2584009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18973703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-339
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description INTRODUCTION: Acute appendicitis occurs frequently and is a major indication for acute abdominal surgery. Subhepatic appendicitis has rarely been reported and is more difficult to diagnose. CASE PRESENTATION: A 71-year-old man with multiple medical comorbidities presented with undifferentiated right abdominal pain. Diagnostic difficulty was encountered due to subhepatic mal-location of the appendix and subsequently atypical presentation for acute appendicitis. CONCLUSION: Subhepatic anatomical location of the appendix makes it more difficult to diagnose acute appendicitis at any age, including in older adults.
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spelling pubmed-25840092008-11-18 Subhepatically located appendicitis due to adhesions: a case report Ting, Joseph YS Farley, Rebecca J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Acute appendicitis occurs frequently and is a major indication for acute abdominal surgery. Subhepatic appendicitis has rarely been reported and is more difficult to diagnose. CASE PRESENTATION: A 71-year-old man with multiple medical comorbidities presented with undifferentiated right abdominal pain. Diagnostic difficulty was encountered due to subhepatic mal-location of the appendix and subsequently atypical presentation for acute appendicitis. CONCLUSION: Subhepatic anatomical location of the appendix makes it more difficult to diagnose acute appendicitis at any age, including in older adults. BioMed Central 2008-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2584009/ /pubmed/18973703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-339 Text en Copyright © 2008 Ting and Farley; 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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Subhepatically located appendicitis due to adhesions: a case report
title Subhepatically located appendicitis due to adhesions: a case report
title_full Subhepatically located appendicitis due to adhesions: a case report
title_fullStr Subhepatically located appendicitis due to adhesions: a case report
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title_short Subhepatically located appendicitis due to adhesions: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2584009/
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