Stump appendicitis: A rare clinical entity

Stump appendicitis is one of the rare delayed complications after appendectomy with reported incidence of 1 in 50,000 cases. Stump appendicitis can present as a diagnostic dilemma if the treating clinician is unfamiliar with this rare clinical entity. We report an 18-year-old patient with Stump appe...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Abhinav, Sharma, Anil, Khullar, Rajesh, Soni, Vandana, Baijal, Manish, Chowbey, Pradeep K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Unusual Case
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250064
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.118835
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author Kumar, Abhinav
Sharma, Anil
Khullar, Rajesh
Soni, Vandana
Baijal, Manish
Chowbey, Pradeep K
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Khullar, Rajesh
Soni, Vandana
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description Stump appendicitis is one of the rare delayed complications after appendectomy with reported incidence of 1 in 50,000 cases. Stump appendicitis can present as a diagnostic dilemma if the treating clinician is unfamiliar with this rare clinical entity. We report an 18-year-old patient with Stump appendicitis, who underwent completion appendectomy laparoscopically.
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spelling pubmed-38301372013-11-18 Stump appendicitis: A rare clinical entity Kumar, Abhinav Sharma, Anil Khullar, Rajesh Soni, Vandana Baijal, Manish Chowbey, Pradeep K J Minim Access Surg Unusual Case Stump appendicitis is one of the rare delayed complications after appendectomy with reported incidence of 1 in 50,000 cases. Stump appendicitis can present as a diagnostic dilemma if the treating clinician is unfamiliar with this rare clinical entity. We report an 18-year-old patient with Stump appendicitis, who underwent completion appendectomy laparoscopically. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3830137/ /pubmed/24250064 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.118835 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kumar, Abhinav
Sharma, Anil
Khullar, Rajesh
Soni, Vandana
Baijal, Manish
Chowbey, Pradeep K
Stump appendicitis: A rare clinical entity
title Stump appendicitis: A rare clinical entity
title_full Stump appendicitis: A rare clinical entity
title_fullStr Stump appendicitis: A rare clinical entity
title_full_unstemmed Stump appendicitis: A rare clinical entity
title_short Stump appendicitis: A rare clinical entity
title_sort stump appendicitis: a rare clinical entity
topic Unusual Case
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250064
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.118835
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