Endometriosis of the Vermiform Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis

Endometriosis is characterized by the growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Endometriosis of the appendix is rare and its preoperative diagnosis is difficult. We report the case of a postmenopausal woman who presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain concerning for acute a...

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Autores principales: Adeboye, Adeolu, Ologun, Gabriel O, Njoku, Daniel, Miner, Jean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6823077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31737458
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5816
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description Endometriosis is characterized by the growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Endometriosis of the appendix is rare and its preoperative diagnosis is difficult. We report the case of a postmenopausal woman who presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain concerning for acute appendicitis. Histopathological examination of her appendix revealed endometriosis and her abdominal pain resolved after appendectomy.
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spelling pubmed-68230772019-11-15 Endometriosis of the Vermiform Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis Adeboye, Adeolu Ologun, Gabriel O Njoku, Daniel Miner, Jean Cureus General Surgery Endometriosis is characterized by the growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Endometriosis of the appendix is rare and its preoperative diagnosis is difficult. We report the case of a postmenopausal woman who presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain concerning for acute appendicitis. Histopathological examination of her appendix revealed endometriosis and her abdominal pain resolved after appendectomy. Cureus 2019-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6823077/ /pubmed/31737458 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5816 Text en Copyright © 2019, Adeboye et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Adeboye, Adeolu
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Miner, Jean
Endometriosis of the Vermiform Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis
title Endometriosis of the Vermiform Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis
title_full Endometriosis of the Vermiform Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis
title_fullStr Endometriosis of the Vermiform Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis
title_full_unstemmed Endometriosis of the Vermiform Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis
title_short Endometriosis of the Vermiform Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis
title_sort endometriosis of the vermiform appendix presenting as acute appendicitis
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6823077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31737458
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5816
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