Missed Appendicitis: Mimicking Urologic Symptoms

Appendicitis, a common disease, has different presentations. This has made its diagnosis difficult. This paper aims to present two cases of missed appendicitis with completely urologic presentation and the way that helped us to reach the correct diagnosis. The first case with symptoms fully related...

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Autor principal: Akhavizadegan, Hamed
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/PMC3541574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/571037
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description Appendicitis, a common disease, has different presentations. This has made its diagnosis difficult. This paper aims to present two cases of missed appendicitis with completely urologic presentation and the way that helped us to reach the correct diagnosis. The first case with symptoms fully related to kidney and the second mimicking epididymorchitis hindered prompt diagnosis. Right site of the pain, relapsing fever, frequent physical examination, and resistance to medical treatment were main clues which help us to make correct diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-35415742013-01-16 Missed Appendicitis: Mimicking Urologic Symptoms Akhavizadegan, Hamed Case Rep Urol Case Report Appendicitis, a common disease, has different presentations. This has made its diagnosis difficult. This paper aims to present two cases of missed appendicitis with completely urologic presentation and the way that helped us to reach the correct diagnosis. The first case with symptoms fully related to kidney and the second mimicking epididymorchitis hindered prompt diagnosis. Right site of the pain, relapsing fever, frequent physical examination, and resistance to medical treatment were main clues which help us to make correct diagnosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3541574/ /pubmed/23326748 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/571037 Text en Copyright © 2012 Hamed Akhavizadegan. 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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title_short Missed Appendicitis: Mimicking Urologic Symptoms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3541574/
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