Pediatric case of acute right-sided abdominal pain: diagnosis is not always appendicitis

Omental infarction (OI) is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain occurring in 0.1% of children, which is typically diagnosed during surgery for suspected appendicitis. We present the case of a 7-year-old Pakistani girl. She presented with acute, severe, progressive, right-sided abdominal pain, which...

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Autores principales: Elgharbawy, Fawzia, Salameh, Khalil, Al Rayes, Talal, Abdelgadir, Ibtihal S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5774598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29388616
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PHMT.S133409

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5774598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29388616
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PHMT.S133409

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