Simultaneous acute appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy

The acute abdomen in pregnancy is a surgical emergency. Ectopic pregnancy and appendicitis are two causes of acute abdomen in pregnancy. Difficulties in correctly identifying the cause of the pain can be hazardous to the patient and care needs to be taken in obtaining a prompt and accurate diagnosis...

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Autores principales: Ankouz, Amal, Ousadden, Abdelmalek, Majdoub, Karim Ibn, Chouaib, Ali, Maazaz, Khalid, Taleb, Khalid Ait
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561956
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.44683
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author Ankouz, Amal
Ousadden, Abdelmalek
Majdoub, Karim Ibn
Chouaib, Ali
Maazaz, Khalid
Taleb, Khalid Ait
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description The acute abdomen in pregnancy is a surgical emergency. Ectopic pregnancy and appendicitis are two causes of acute abdomen in pregnancy. Difficulties in correctly identifying the cause of the pain can be hazardous to the patient and care needs to be taken in obtaining a prompt and accurate diagnosis enabling the most appropriate management. The case presented here underlies the pathogenesis of the simultaneous existence of these two conditions in a patient.
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spelling pubmed-27005712009-06-25 Simultaneous acute appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy Ankouz, Amal Ousadden, Abdelmalek Majdoub, Karim Ibn Chouaib, Ali Maazaz, Khalid Taleb, Khalid Ait J Emerg Trauma Shock Case Report The acute abdomen in pregnancy is a surgical emergency. Ectopic pregnancy and appendicitis are two causes of acute abdomen in pregnancy. Difficulties in correctly identifying the cause of the pain can be hazardous to the patient and care needs to be taken in obtaining a prompt and accurate diagnosis enabling the most appropriate management. The case presented here underlies the pathogenesis of the simultaneous existence of these two conditions in a patient. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2700571/ /pubmed/19561956 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.44683 Text en © Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ousadden, Abdelmalek
Majdoub, Karim Ibn
Chouaib, Ali
Maazaz, Khalid
Taleb, Khalid Ait
Simultaneous acute appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy
title Simultaneous acute appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy
title_full Simultaneous acute appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy
title_fullStr Simultaneous acute appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy
title_full_unstemmed Simultaneous acute appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy
title_short Simultaneous acute appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700571/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.44683
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