Acute Appendagitis Presenting with Features of Appendicitis: Value of Abdominal CT Evaluation

We report a case of acute appendagitis in a patient who presented initially with typical features of acute appendicitis. The diagnosis of acute appendagitis was made on pathognomonic signs on computed tomography (CT) scan. Abdominal pain is a common surgical emergency. CT is not always done if there...

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Autores principales: Dubb, Sukhpreet, Arnold, Ahran, Banavali, Shekar, Arnold, Jayantha
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2008
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Published: May 2008
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21505556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000133827
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author Dubb, Sukhpreet
Arnold, Ahran
Banavali, Shekar
Arnold, Jayantha
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description We report a case of acute appendagitis in a patient who presented initially with typical features of acute appendicitis. The diagnosis of acute appendagitis was made on pathognomonic signs on computed tomography (CT) scan. Abdominal pain is a common surgical emergency. CT is not always done if there are clear features of acute appendicitis. The rare but important differential diagnosis of acute appendagitis must be borne in mind when dealing with patients with suspected acute appendicitis. A CT scan of the abdomen may avoid unnecessary surgery in these patients.
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spelling pubmed-30751412011-04-19 Acute Appendagitis Presenting with Features of Appendicitis: Value of Abdominal CT Evaluation Dubb, Sukhpreet Arnold, Ahran Banavali, Shekar Arnold, Jayantha Case Rep Gastroenterol Published: May 2008 We report a case of acute appendagitis in a patient who presented initially with typical features of acute appendicitis. The diagnosis of acute appendagitis was made on pathognomonic signs on computed tomography (CT) scan. Abdominal pain is a common surgical emergency. CT is not always done if there are clear features of acute appendicitis. The rare but important differential diagnosis of acute appendagitis must be borne in mind when dealing with patients with suspected acute appendicitis. A CT scan of the abdomen may avoid unnecessary surgery in these patients. S. Karger AG 2008-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3075141/ /pubmed/21505556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000133827 Text en Copyright © 2008 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: May 2008
Dubb, Sukhpreet
Arnold, Ahran
Banavali, Shekar
Arnold, Jayantha
Acute Appendagitis Presenting with Features of Appendicitis: Value of Abdominal CT Evaluation
title Acute Appendagitis Presenting with Features of Appendicitis: Value of Abdominal CT Evaluation
title_full Acute Appendagitis Presenting with Features of Appendicitis: Value of Abdominal CT Evaluation
title_fullStr Acute Appendagitis Presenting with Features of Appendicitis: Value of Abdominal CT Evaluation
title_full_unstemmed Acute Appendagitis Presenting with Features of Appendicitis: Value of Abdominal CT Evaluation
title_short Acute Appendagitis Presenting with Features of Appendicitis: Value of Abdominal CT Evaluation
title_sort acute appendagitis presenting with features of appendicitis: value of abdominal ct evaluation
topic Published: May 2008
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21505556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000133827
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