Acute Torsion of Appendicular Mucocele

We present the case of an 81-year-old man with a known appendicular mucocele who presented to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain. A CT scan showed a change in orientation of the previously seen ovoid mass with surrounding fat stranding suggesting torsion. An emergency laparotomy with...

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Autores principales: Ejtehadi, Farshid, Brooks, James, Ali, Hebah Hassan, Vijay, Vardhini
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28536666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9409281
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author Ejtehadi, Farshid
Brooks, James
Ali, Hebah Hassan
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description We present the case of an 81-year-old man with a known appendicular mucocele who presented to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain. A CT scan showed a change in orientation of the previously seen ovoid mass with surrounding fat stranding suggesting torsion. An emergency laparotomy with appendicectomy and resection of the caecal pole was performed. We discuss the findings and histopathology.
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spelling pubmed-54258432017-05-23 Acute Torsion of Appendicular Mucocele Ejtehadi, Farshid Brooks, James Ali, Hebah Hassan Vijay, Vardhini Case Rep Surg Case Report We present the case of an 81-year-old man with a known appendicular mucocele who presented to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain. A CT scan showed a change in orientation of the previously seen ovoid mass with surrounding fat stranding suggesting torsion. An emergency laparotomy with appendicectomy and resection of the caecal pole was performed. We discuss the findings and histopathology. Hindawi 2017 2017-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5425843/ /pubmed/28536666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9409281 Text en Copyright © 2017 Farshid Ejtehadi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28536666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9409281
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