Absence of the appendix discovered during childhood

Absence of the appendix is rare. Isolated cases are usually discovered in adult patients or cadavers. We report the case of a 14 year old boy who was found to have no appendix on laparotomy for assumed acute appendicitis and use this opportunity to highlight the growing surgical uses of this vestigi...

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Autores principales: Vincent, Michelle V, Doyle, Alex, Bernstein, Sean, Jackman, Selma
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/PMC4166596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25279313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-522
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description Absence of the appendix is rare. Isolated cases are usually discovered in adult patients or cadavers. We report the case of a 14 year old boy who was found to have no appendix on laparotomy for assumed acute appendicitis and use this opportunity to highlight the growing surgical uses of this vestigial structure.
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spelling pubmed-41665962014-10-02 Absence of the appendix discovered during childhood Vincent, Michelle V Doyle, Alex Bernstein, Sean Jackman, Selma Springerplus Case Study Absence of the appendix is rare. Isolated cases are usually discovered in adult patients or cadavers. We report the case of a 14 year old boy who was found to have no appendix on laparotomy for assumed acute appendicitis and use this opportunity to highlight the growing surgical uses of this vestigial structure. Springer International Publishing 2014-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4166596/ /pubmed/25279313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-522 Text en © Vincent 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/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166596/
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