Neonatal Appendicitis and Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Neonatal appendicitis carries a high mortality rate. We describe a peculiar case presented after an incarcerated hernia manually reduced in a 4-week-old male neonate with ipsilateral undescended testis. Laparoscopy allowed a prompt recognition of an unexpected intra-abdominal life-threatening condit...

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Autores principales: Fascetti-Leon, Francesco, Sherwood, William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28974880
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_226_16
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description Neonatal appendicitis carries a high mortality rate. We describe a peculiar case presented after an incarcerated hernia manually reduced in a 4-week-old male neonate with ipsilateral undescended testis. Laparoscopy allowed a prompt recognition of an unexpected intra-abdominal life-threatening condition. Pathogenesis, treatment, and outcome are discussed on the light of a comprehensive literature review.
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spelling pubmed-56159022017-10-04 Neonatal Appendicitis and Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature Fascetti-Leon, Francesco Sherwood, William J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Neonatal appendicitis carries a high mortality rate. We describe a peculiar case presented after an incarcerated hernia manually reduced in a 4-week-old male neonate with ipsilateral undescended testis. Laparoscopy allowed a prompt recognition of an unexpected intra-abdominal life-threatening condition. Pathogenesis, treatment, and outcome are discussed on the light of a comprehensive literature review. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5615902/ /pubmed/28974880 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_226_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Neonatal Appendicitis and Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Neonatal Appendicitis and Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Neonatal Appendicitis and Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Neonatal Appendicitis and Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Neonatal Appendicitis and Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Neonatal Appendicitis and Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort neonatal appendicitis and incarcerated inguinal hernia: case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615902/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_226_16
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