A Gut Feeling: An Extremely Rare Case of Missed Appendicitis

This case outlines the emergency department and surgical course of a 63-year-old male presenting with acute onset abdominal pain. Appendicitis was high on the differential for the treating physician, but after the computed tomography and laboratory evaluation were unremarkable, the patient was disch...

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Autores principales: Pilgrim, Ashley, Russo, Rachel, Moulin, Aimee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014
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Diagnostic Acumen
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25493134
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.7.23037
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description This case outlines the emergency department and surgical course of a 63-year-old male presenting with acute onset abdominal pain. Appendicitis was high on the differential for the treating physician, but after the computed tomography and laboratory evaluation were unremarkable, the patient was discharged only to return the next day. What ensued was one of the rarest cases of missed appendicitis documented in the medical literature.
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spelling pubmed-42512352014-12-09 A Gut Feeling: An Extremely Rare Case of Missed Appendicitis Pilgrim, Ashley Russo, Rachel Moulin, Aimee West J Emerg Med Diagnostic Acumen This case outlines the emergency department and surgical course of a 63-year-old male presenting with acute onset abdominal pain. Appendicitis was high on the differential for the treating physician, but after the computed tomography and laboratory evaluation were unremarkable, the patient was discharged only to return the next day. What ensued was one of the rarest cases of missed appendicitis documented in the medical literature. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014-11 2014-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4251235/ /pubmed/25493134 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.7.23037 Text en Copyright © 2014 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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