Tuberculous colon perforation mimicking acute appendicitis: A case report and review of the literature

Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical condition encountered in the pediatric age group but the clinical presentation could be misleading. This highlights the importance of exploratory laparotomy even in the absence of systemic manifestations in order not to miss a serious underlying patholo...

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Autores principales: Nahida, El‐Rifai, Hassan, Harissi, Nabil, Daoud, Emmanuelle, Leteurtre, Frédéric, Gottrand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6230600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30455912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1795
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author Nahida, El‐Rifai
Hassan, Harissi
Nabil, Daoud
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description Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical condition encountered in the pediatric age group but the clinical presentation could be misleading. This highlights the importance of exploratory laparotomy even in the absence of systemic manifestations in order not to miss a serious underlying pathology such as intestinal tuberculosis.
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spelling pubmed-62306002018-11-19 Tuberculous colon perforation mimicking acute appendicitis: A case report and review of the literature Nahida, El‐Rifai Hassan, Harissi Nabil, Daoud Emmanuelle, Leteurtre Frédéric, Gottrand Clin Case Rep Case Reports Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical condition encountered in the pediatric age group but the clinical presentation could be misleading. This highlights the importance of exploratory laparotomy even in the absence of systemic manifestations in order not to miss a serious underlying pathology such as intestinal tuberculosis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6230600/ /pubmed/30455912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1795 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tuberculous colon perforation mimicking acute appendicitis: A case report and review of the literature
title Tuberculous colon perforation mimicking acute appendicitis: A case report and review of the literature
title_full Tuberculous colon perforation mimicking acute appendicitis: A case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Tuberculous colon perforation mimicking acute appendicitis: A case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculous colon perforation mimicking acute appendicitis: A case report and review of the literature
title_short Tuberculous colon perforation mimicking acute appendicitis: A case report and review of the literature
title_sort tuberculous colon perforation mimicking acute appendicitis: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6230600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30455912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1795
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