Mesenteric panniculitis in a child misdiagnosed as appendicular mass: a case report and review of literature

Mesenteric panniculitis is a chronic inflammatory process involving the adipose tissue of the mesentery. The etiology is unknown, and it is rare in children. We report a 5 year old girl who presented with abdominal symptoms and was misdiagnosed as appendicular mass. The correct diagnosis was establi...

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Autores principales: Rumman, Nisreen, Rumman, George, Sharabati, Barakat, Zagha, Rami, Disi, Nimer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2014
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Case Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4153878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25191632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-73
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description Mesenteric panniculitis is a chronic inflammatory process involving the adipose tissue of the mesentery. The etiology is unknown, and it is rare in children. We report a 5 year old girl who presented with abdominal symptoms and was misdiagnosed as appendicular mass. The correct diagnosis was established after surgical resection.
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spelling pubmed-41538782014-09-04 Mesenteric panniculitis in a child misdiagnosed as appendicular mass: a case report and review of literature Rumman, Nisreen Rumman, George Sharabati, Barakat Zagha, Rami Disi, Nimer Springerplus Case Study Mesenteric panniculitis is a chronic inflammatory process involving the adipose tissue of the mesentery. The etiology is unknown, and it is rare in children. We report a 5 year old girl who presented with abdominal symptoms and was misdiagnosed as appendicular mass. The correct diagnosis was established after surgical resection. Springer International Publishing 2014-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4153878/ /pubmed/25191632 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-73 Text en © Rumman et al.; licensee Springer. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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Mesenteric panniculitis in a child misdiagnosed as appendicular mass: a case report and review of literature
title Mesenteric panniculitis in a child misdiagnosed as appendicular mass: a case report and review of literature
title_full Mesenteric panniculitis in a child misdiagnosed as appendicular mass: a case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Mesenteric panniculitis in a child misdiagnosed as appendicular mass: a case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Mesenteric panniculitis in a child misdiagnosed as appendicular mass: a case report and review of literature
title_short Mesenteric panniculitis in a child misdiagnosed as appendicular mass: a case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4153878/
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