Solitary mesenteric vascular anomaly presenting as acute abdomen

A 4-year-old girl with a solitary vascular anomaly of the mesentery presented with acute lower abdominal pain. Despite the use of ultrasound, computed tomography scan and image-guided core biopsies, the lesion was initially mistaken for an inflammatory intra-abdominal mass. The correct diagnosis was...

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Autores principales: Thambidorai, C. R., Wahab, A., Hamzaini, A. H.
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/PMC2788461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20011488
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.43820
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author Thambidorai, C. R.
Wahab, A.
Hamzaini, A. H.
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description A 4-year-old girl with a solitary vascular anomaly of the mesentery presented with acute lower abdominal pain. Despite the use of ultrasound, computed tomography scan and image-guided core biopsies, the lesion was initially mistaken for an inflammatory intra-abdominal mass. The correct diagnosis was made at laparotomy. Solitary vascular anomaly of the mesentery is rare and its presentation as an acute abdomen has not been reported before.
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spelling pubmed-27884612009-12-13 Solitary mesenteric vascular anomaly presenting as acute abdomen Thambidorai, C. R. Wahab, A. Hamzaini, A. H. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report A 4-year-old girl with a solitary vascular anomaly of the mesentery presented with acute lower abdominal pain. Despite the use of ultrasound, computed tomography scan and image-guided core biopsies, the lesion was initially mistaken for an inflammatory intra-abdominal mass. The correct diagnosis was made at laparotomy. Solitary vascular anomaly of the mesentery is rare and its presentation as an acute abdomen has not been reported before. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2788461/ /pubmed/20011488 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.43820 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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Hamzaini, A. H.
Solitary mesenteric vascular anomaly presenting as acute abdomen
title Solitary mesenteric vascular anomaly presenting as acute abdomen
title_full Solitary mesenteric vascular anomaly presenting as acute abdomen
title_fullStr Solitary mesenteric vascular anomaly presenting as acute abdomen
title_full_unstemmed Solitary mesenteric vascular anomaly presenting as acute abdomen
title_short Solitary mesenteric vascular anomaly presenting as acute abdomen
title_sort solitary mesenteric vascular anomaly presenting as acute abdomen
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20011488
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.43820
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