Diagnosis of Appendicitis in Patients with Abnormal Position of the Appendix due to Mobile Caecum

Acute appendicitis is usually diagnosed on the basis of signs, symptoms, clinical history, physical examination, and results of laboratory tests.The position of the appendix can vary considerably, both in relation to the caecum and because of the inconsistent position of the caecum itself, and may c...

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Autores principales: Toprak, Huseyin, Bilgin, Mehmet, Atay, Musa, Kocakoc, Ercan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3512262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23227414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/921382
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author Toprak, Huseyin
Bilgin, Mehmet
Atay, Musa
Kocakoc, Ercan
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description Acute appendicitis is usually diagnosed on the basis of signs, symptoms, clinical history, physical examination, and results of laboratory tests.The position of the appendix can vary considerably, both in relation to the caecum and because of the inconsistent position of the caecum itself, and may cause variable clinical symptoms. We present the CT findings of surgically proven acute appendicitis associated with atypically located caecum in two patients.
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spelling pubmed-35122622012-12-07 Diagnosis of Appendicitis in Patients with Abnormal Position of the Appendix due to Mobile Caecum Toprak, Huseyin Bilgin, Mehmet Atay, Musa Kocakoc, Ercan Case Rep Surg Case Report Acute appendicitis is usually diagnosed on the basis of signs, symptoms, clinical history, physical examination, and results of laboratory tests.The position of the appendix can vary considerably, both in relation to the caecum and because of the inconsistent position of the caecum itself, and may cause variable clinical symptoms. We present the CT findings of surgically proven acute appendicitis associated with atypically located caecum in two patients. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3512262/ /pubmed/23227414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/921382 Text en Copyright © 2012 Huseyin Toprak et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Diagnosis of Appendicitis in Patients with Abnormal Position of the Appendix due to Mobile Caecum
title Diagnosis of Appendicitis in Patients with Abnormal Position of the Appendix due to Mobile Caecum
title_full Diagnosis of Appendicitis in Patients with Abnormal Position of the Appendix due to Mobile Caecum
title_fullStr Diagnosis of Appendicitis in Patients with Abnormal Position of the Appendix due to Mobile Caecum
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosis of Appendicitis in Patients with Abnormal Position of the Appendix due to Mobile Caecum
title_short Diagnosis of Appendicitis in Patients with Abnormal Position of the Appendix due to Mobile Caecum
title_sort diagnosis of appendicitis in patients with abnormal position of the appendix due to mobile caecum
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3512262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23227414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/921382
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