Two Cases of Omental Torsion Mimicking Acute Appendicitis

Acute appendicitis is often simulated by other entities like mesenteric adenitis, worm infestation, Meckel’s diverticulitis, urinary tract infection and rarely omental torsion. We report two cases, a 6 year old boy and an 11 year old girl, who presented with symptoms and signs of acute appendicitis...

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Autores principales: Khan, Feeroz Alam, Liaqat, Naeem, Dar, Sajid Hameed, Sandhu, Asif Iqbal, Nayyer, Sajid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24834389
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author Khan, Feeroz Alam
Liaqat, Naeem
Dar, Sajid Hameed
Sandhu, Asif Iqbal
Nayyer, Sajid
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description Acute appendicitis is often simulated by other entities like mesenteric adenitis, worm infestation, Meckel’s diverticulitis, urinary tract infection and rarely omental torsion. We report two cases, a 6 year old boy and an 11 year old girl, who presented with symptoms and signs of acute appendicitis but upon exploration turned out to be omental torsion.
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spelling pubmed-40050952014-05-15 Two Cases of Omental Torsion Mimicking Acute Appendicitis Khan, Feeroz Alam Liaqat, Naeem Dar, Sajid Hameed Sandhu, Asif Iqbal Nayyer, Sajid APSP J Case Rep Case Report Acute appendicitis is often simulated by other entities like mesenteric adenitis, worm infestation, Meckel’s diverticulitis, urinary tract infection and rarely omental torsion. We report two cases, a 6 year old boy and an 11 year old girl, who presented with symptoms and signs of acute appendicitis but upon exploration turned out to be omental torsion. EL-MED-Pub 2014-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4005095/ /pubmed/24834389 Text en Copyright © 2014 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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