‘PEN’ appendicitis

We report a three-year-old boy who ingested the tip of a pen and presented with signs of appendicitis. Plain abdominal radiographs showed the foreign body in the right iliac fossa. Surgical exploration revealed perforated appendix and the foreign body in its lumen. Appendectomy resulted in satisfact...

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Autores principales: Ngom, Gabriel, Amadou, Issa, Ngaringuem, Olivier, Ndour, Oumar
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/PMC2952784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20975790
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.70649
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description We report a three-year-old boy who ingested the tip of a pen and presented with signs of appendicitis. Plain abdominal radiographs showed the foreign body in the right iliac fossa. Surgical exploration revealed perforated appendix and the foreign body in its lumen. Appendectomy resulted in satisfactory recovery.
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spelling pubmed-29527842010-10-22 ‘PEN’ appendicitis Ngom, Gabriel Amadou, Issa Ngaringuem, Olivier Ndour, Oumar J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report We report a three-year-old boy who ingested the tip of a pen and presented with signs of appendicitis. Plain abdominal radiographs showed the foreign body in the right iliac fossa. Surgical exploration revealed perforated appendix and the foreign body in its lumen. Appendectomy resulted in satisfactory recovery. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2952784/ /pubmed/20975790 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.70649 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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