Acute Appendicitis Complicated by Pylephlebitis: A Case Report

Pylephlebitis is defined as septic thrombophlebitis of the portal vein. It is a rare but serious complication of an intraabdominal infection, more commonly diverticulitis and appendicitis. It has an unspecific clinical presentation and the diagnosis is difficult. The authors report a case of a 21-ye...

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Autores principales: Castro, Ricardo, Fernandes, Teresa, Oliveira, Maria I., Castro, Miguel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3838809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24312741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/627521
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author Castro, Ricardo
Fernandes, Teresa
Oliveira, Maria I.
Castro, Miguel
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description Pylephlebitis is defined as septic thrombophlebitis of the portal vein. It is a rare but serious complication of an intraabdominal infection, more commonly diverticulitis and appendicitis. It has an unspecific clinical presentation and the diagnosis is difficult. The authors report a case of a 21-year-old man with acute appendicitis complicated by pylephlebitis. The diagnosis was made with contrast enhanced CT.
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spelling pubmed-38388092013-12-05 Acute Appendicitis Complicated by Pylephlebitis: A Case Report Castro, Ricardo Fernandes, Teresa Oliveira, Maria I. Castro, Miguel Case Rep Radiol Case Report Pylephlebitis is defined as septic thrombophlebitis of the portal vein. It is a rare but serious complication of an intraabdominal infection, more commonly diverticulitis and appendicitis. It has an unspecific clinical presentation and the diagnosis is difficult. The authors report a case of a 21-year-old man with acute appendicitis complicated by pylephlebitis. The diagnosis was made with contrast enhanced CT. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3838809/ /pubmed/24312741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/627521 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ricardo Castro 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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Acute Appendicitis Complicated by Pylephlebitis: A Case Report
title Acute Appendicitis Complicated by Pylephlebitis: A Case Report
title_full Acute Appendicitis Complicated by Pylephlebitis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Acute Appendicitis Complicated by Pylephlebitis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Acute Appendicitis Complicated by Pylephlebitis: A Case Report
title_short Acute Appendicitis Complicated by Pylephlebitis: A Case Report
title_sort acute appendicitis complicated by pylephlebitis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3838809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24312741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/627521
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