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Acute contact appendicitis due to a migrated pericardial drain: a case report

INTRODUCTION: The literature is replete with articles of foreign-body appendicitis and periappendicitis, but to our knowledge there are only two reports of extraintestinal foreign bodies causing contact appendicitis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 47-year old woman presented to the emergency department with a...

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Autores principales: Paramythiotis, Daniel, Papavramidis, Theodossis S, Papadopoulos, Vassilis N, Michalopoulos, Antonis, Vasilaki, Olia, Harlaftis, Nick
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829774
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6250