Beware of neonatal appendicitis

We report a neonate with acute appendicitis who was mistakenly diagnosed and treated initially as neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. The diagnostic dilemma of this rare and life-threatening condition in premature babies and newborns is underlined. Awareness of this rare condition and possible diffe...

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Autores principales: Khan, Rizwan A., Menon, Prema, Rao, K. L. N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20975787
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.70646
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description We report a neonate with acute appendicitis who was mistakenly diagnosed and treated initially as neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. The diagnostic dilemma of this rare and life-threatening condition in premature babies and newborns is underlined. Awareness of this rare condition and possible differential diagnosis in this age group is also discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29527812010-10-22 Beware of neonatal appendicitis Khan, Rizwan A. Menon, Prema Rao, K. L. N. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report We report a neonate with acute appendicitis who was mistakenly diagnosed and treated initially as neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. The diagnostic dilemma of this rare and life-threatening condition in premature babies and newborns is underlined. Awareness of this rare condition and possible differential diagnosis in this age group is also discussed. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2952781/ /pubmed/20975787 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.70646 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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Khan, Rizwan A.
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title_fullStr Beware of neonatal appendicitis
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title_short Beware of neonatal appendicitis
title_sort beware of neonatal appendicitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952781/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.70646
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