Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children

Appendicitis epiploicae is described as a rare entity in an 8-year-old boy presented with the features of acute abdomen simulating acute appendicitis. Surgical exploration revealed a torsion of appendices epiploicae of the cecum. The excision of infarcted epiploicae with seromuscular inversion resul...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Vipul, Kumar, Sunil
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20011477
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.43035
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description Appendicitis epiploicae is described as a rare entity in an 8-year-old boy presented with the features of acute abdomen simulating acute appendicitis. Surgical exploration revealed a torsion of appendices epiploicae of the cecum. The excision of infarcted epiploicae with seromuscular inversion resulted in satisfactory recovery. Authors describe this uncommon cause of pediatric acute abdomen along with the review of pertinent literature.
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spelling pubmed-27884442009-12-13 Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children Gupta, Vipul Kumar, Sunil J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Appendicitis epiploicae is described as a rare entity in an 8-year-old boy presented with the features of acute abdomen simulating acute appendicitis. Surgical exploration revealed a torsion of appendices epiploicae of the cecum. The excision of infarcted epiploicae with seromuscular inversion resulted in satisfactory recovery. Authors describe this uncommon cause of pediatric acute abdomen along with the review of pertinent literature. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2788444/ /pubmed/20011477 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.43035 Text en © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons 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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Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children
title Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children
title_full Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children
title_fullStr Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children
title_full_unstemmed Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children
title_short Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children
title_sort appendicitis epiploicae: an unusual cause of acute abdomen in children
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20011477
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.43035
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