Perforated Neonatal Appendicitis with Pneumoperitoneum

Acute appendicitis is a rare condition in neonates, with a high mortality. If perforated, it seldom presents with radiologically significant pneumoperitoneum. An 11-day-old newborn presented with abdominal distension and reluctance to feeds. X-ray abdomen revealed significant pneumoperitoneum. After...

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Autores principales: Khan, Yousuf Aziz, Zia, Kanwal, Saddal, Nasir Salim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24040599
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author Khan, Yousuf Aziz
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description Acute appendicitis is a rare condition in neonates, with a high mortality. If perforated, it seldom presents with radiologically significant pneumoperitoneum. An 11-day-old newborn presented with abdominal distension and reluctance to feeds. X-ray abdomen revealed significant pneumoperitoneum. After optimization of his condition, exploratory laparotomy was performed. Perforated appendix was found and appendicectomy done. Post operative course was stormy that lead to demise of the baby.
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spelling pubmed-37544062013-09-13 Perforated Neonatal Appendicitis with Pneumoperitoneum Khan, Yousuf Aziz Zia, Kanwal Saddal, Nasir Salim APSP J Case Rep Case Report Acute appendicitis is a rare condition in neonates, with a high mortality. If perforated, it seldom presents with radiologically significant pneumoperitoneum. An 11-day-old newborn presented with abdominal distension and reluctance to feeds. X-ray abdomen revealed significant pneumoperitoneum. After optimization of his condition, exploratory laparotomy was performed. Perforated appendix was found and appendicectomy done. Post operative course was stormy that lead to demise of the baby. EL-MED-Pub 2013-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3754406/ /pubmed/24040599 Text en Copyright © 2013 Khan et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Khan, Yousuf Aziz
Zia, Kanwal
Saddal, Nasir Salim
Perforated Neonatal Appendicitis with Pneumoperitoneum
title Perforated Neonatal Appendicitis with Pneumoperitoneum
title_full Perforated Neonatal Appendicitis with Pneumoperitoneum
title_fullStr Perforated Neonatal Appendicitis with Pneumoperitoneum
title_full_unstemmed Perforated Neonatal Appendicitis with Pneumoperitoneum
title_short Perforated Neonatal Appendicitis with Pneumoperitoneum
title_sort perforated neonatal appendicitis with pneumoperitoneum
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24040599
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