Neonatal appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Acute appendicitis is a common disease in older children but rare in neonates. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 2-day-old Asian baby who suffered from neonatal appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication. Laparoscopic appendectomy was successfully performed after the trans-...

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Autores principales: Saeki, Isamu, Yamanouchi, Takeshi, Tanaka, Sakura, Kawanami, Takashi, Mori, Ryou, Zaizen, Yoshio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22963869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-6-286
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author Saeki, Isamu
Yamanouchi, Takeshi
Tanaka, Sakura
Kawanami, Takashi
Mori, Ryou
Zaizen, Yoshio
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Yamanouchi, Takeshi
Tanaka, Sakura
Kawanami, Takashi
Mori, Ryou
Zaizen, Yoshio
author_sort Saeki, Isamu
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description INTRODUCTION: Acute appendicitis is a common disease in older children but rare in neonates. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 2-day-old Asian baby who suffered from neonatal appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication. Laparoscopic appendectomy was successfully performed after the trans-umbilical division of adhesions, and the postoperative course was uneventful. CONCLUSION: There are few reports describing abdominal masses caused by appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication. The laparoscopic approach for neonatal appendicitis is considered to be a safe and useful therapeutic modality with good cosmetic results.
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spelling pubmed-34448962012-09-19 Neonatal appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication: a case report Saeki, Isamu Yamanouchi, Takeshi Tanaka, Sakura Kawanami, Takashi Mori, Ryou Zaizen, Yoshio J Med Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Acute appendicitis is a common disease in older children but rare in neonates. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 2-day-old Asian baby who suffered from neonatal appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication. Laparoscopic appendectomy was successfully performed after the trans-umbilical division of adhesions, and the postoperative course was uneventful. CONCLUSION: There are few reports describing abdominal masses caused by appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication. The laparoscopic approach for neonatal appendicitis is considered to be a safe and useful therapeutic modality with good cosmetic results. BioMed Central 2012-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3444896/ /pubmed/22963869 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-6-286 Text en Copyright ©2012 Saeki et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Saeki, Isamu
Yamanouchi, Takeshi
Tanaka, Sakura
Kawanami, Takashi
Mori, Ryou
Zaizen, Yoshio
Neonatal appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication: a case report
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title_short Neonatal appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication: a case report
title_sort neonatal appendicitis mimicking intestinal duplication: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444896/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-6-286
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