Intermittent torsion of accessory hepatic lobe: An unusual cause of recurrent right upper quadrant pain

An accessory lobe of the liver is a rare congenital anomaly that can undergo torsion and present as an acute surgical emergency. It is rarely diagnosed preoperatively. We report the preoperative utility of CT scan and MRI in the diagnosis and surgical planning of a case of intermittent accessory hep...

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Autores principales: Jambhekar, Kedar, Pandey, Tarun, Kaushik, Chhavi, Shah, Hemendra R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Abdominal
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20607028
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.63046
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author Jambhekar, Kedar
Pandey, Tarun
Kaushik, Chhavi
Shah, Hemendra R
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spelling pubmed-28909232010-07-06 Intermittent torsion of accessory hepatic lobe: An unusual cause of recurrent right upper quadrant pain Jambhekar, Kedar Pandey, Tarun Kaushik, Chhavi Shah, Hemendra R Indian J Radiol Imaging Abdominal An accessory lobe of the liver is a rare congenital anomaly that can undergo torsion and present as an acute surgical emergency. It is rarely diagnosed preoperatively. We report the preoperative utility of CT scan and MRI in the diagnosis and surgical planning of a case of intermittent accessory hepatic lobe torsion. Medknow Publications 2010-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2890923/ /pubmed/20607028 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.63046 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging 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.
spellingShingle Abdominal
Jambhekar, Kedar
Pandey, Tarun
Kaushik, Chhavi
Shah, Hemendra R
Intermittent torsion of accessory hepatic lobe: An unusual cause of recurrent right upper quadrant pain
title Intermittent torsion of accessory hepatic lobe: An unusual cause of recurrent right upper quadrant pain
title_full Intermittent torsion of accessory hepatic lobe: An unusual cause of recurrent right upper quadrant pain
title_fullStr Intermittent torsion of accessory hepatic lobe: An unusual cause of recurrent right upper quadrant pain
title_full_unstemmed Intermittent torsion of accessory hepatic lobe: An unusual cause of recurrent right upper quadrant pain
title_short Intermittent torsion of accessory hepatic lobe: An unusual cause of recurrent right upper quadrant pain
title_sort intermittent torsion of accessory hepatic lobe: an unusual cause of recurrent right upper quadrant pain
topic Abdominal
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20607028
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.63046
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