Incidental Diagnosis of Appendiceal Abscess by Colonoscopy; A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Although complicated acute appendicitis is occasionally observed in general practice, the diagnosis of appendiceal abscess by colonoscopy is unusual. We report a case of appendiceal abscess with spontaneous drainage into the lumen of colon diagnosed during colonoscopy and resolved by the time of sur...

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Autores principales: Niknam, Ramin, Fattahi, Mohammad Reza, Mahmoudi, Laleh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Association of Gastroerterology and Hepatology 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26106469
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spelling pubmed-44307982015-06-23 Incidental Diagnosis of Appendiceal Abscess by Colonoscopy; A Case Report and Review of the Literature Niknam, Ramin Fattahi, Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi, Laleh Middle East J Dig Dis Case Report Although complicated acute appendicitis is occasionally observed in general practice, the diagnosis of appendiceal abscess by colonoscopy is unusual. We report a case of appendiceal abscess with spontaneous drainage into the lumen of colon diagnosed during colonoscopy and resolved by the time of surgery. Iranian Association of Gastroerterology and Hepatology 2015-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4430798/ /pubmed/26106469 Text en © 2015 by Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseases This work is published by Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseases as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Incidental Diagnosis of Appendiceal Abscess by Colonoscopy; A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Incidental Diagnosis of Appendiceal Abscess by Colonoscopy; A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Incidental Diagnosis of Appendiceal Abscess by Colonoscopy; A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Incidental Diagnosis of Appendiceal Abscess by Colonoscopy; A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Incidental Diagnosis of Appendiceal Abscess by Colonoscopy; A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Incidental Diagnosis of Appendiceal Abscess by Colonoscopy; A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort incidental diagnosis of appendiceal abscess by colonoscopy; a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26106469
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