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Colon stenosis due to acute neonatal appendicitis in a preterm baby: a case report
BACKGROUND: Colon stenosis and acute appendicitis are rare diseases among premature babies. To the best of our knowledge, no study has identified both the conditions in preterm babies. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a case of a preterm Japanese male baby who developed ascending colon stenosis and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6907132/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31830939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1873-0 |
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author | Naito, Takuto Teramen, Hiromu Hayashi, Hiroaki Takegawa, Mai Sakamoto, Haruko Shimada, Toshihide Ohno, Koichi Yoshii, Misao |
author_facet | Naito, Takuto Teramen, Hiromu Hayashi, Hiroaki Takegawa, Mai Sakamoto, Haruko Shimada, Toshihide Ohno, Koichi Yoshii, Misao |
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description | BACKGROUND: Colon stenosis and acute appendicitis are rare diseases among premature babies. To the best of our knowledge, no study has identified both the conditions in preterm babies. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a case of a preterm Japanese male baby who developed ascending colon stenosis and appendicitis. During his neonatal intensive care unit stay, he developed increasing apnea and vomiting with rapidly worsening abdominal distention. Contrast radiographs indicated colon stenosis. Emergent exploratory laparotomy revealed ascending colon stenosis with appendix adhesion; both the lesions were surgically resected. The pathological findings suggested that he had appendicitis several weeks prior to the surgery; the onset of colon lesion seemed later than that of appendix. The perforated appendix was covered by the ascending colon, and inflammatory reactions led to the narrowing of the intestinal lumen. CONCLUSIONS: Neonatal appendicitis and colon stenosis are both challenging for the diagnosis, and early laparotomy is necessary when these conditions are suspected. |
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spelling | pubmed-69071322019-12-20 Colon stenosis due to acute neonatal appendicitis in a preterm baby: a case report Naito, Takuto Teramen, Hiromu Hayashi, Hiroaki Takegawa, Mai Sakamoto, Haruko Shimada, Toshihide Ohno, Koichi Yoshii, Misao BMC Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Colon stenosis and acute appendicitis are rare diseases among premature babies. To the best of our knowledge, no study has identified both the conditions in preterm babies. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a case of a preterm Japanese male baby who developed ascending colon stenosis and appendicitis. During his neonatal intensive care unit stay, he developed increasing apnea and vomiting with rapidly worsening abdominal distention. Contrast radiographs indicated colon stenosis. Emergent exploratory laparotomy revealed ascending colon stenosis with appendix adhesion; both the lesions were surgically resected. The pathological findings suggested that he had appendicitis several weeks prior to the surgery; the onset of colon lesion seemed later than that of appendix. The perforated appendix was covered by the ascending colon, and inflammatory reactions led to the narrowing of the intestinal lumen. CONCLUSIONS: Neonatal appendicitis and colon stenosis are both challenging for the diagnosis, and early laparotomy is necessary when these conditions are suspected. BioMed Central 2019-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6907132/ /pubmed/31830939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1873-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Naito, Takuto Teramen, Hiromu Hayashi, Hiroaki Takegawa, Mai Sakamoto, Haruko Shimada, Toshihide Ohno, Koichi Yoshii, Misao Colon stenosis due to acute neonatal appendicitis in a preterm baby: a case report |
title | Colon stenosis due to acute neonatal appendicitis in a preterm baby: a case report |
title_full | Colon stenosis due to acute neonatal appendicitis in a preterm baby: a case report |
title_fullStr | Colon stenosis due to acute neonatal appendicitis in a preterm baby: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Colon stenosis due to acute neonatal appendicitis in a preterm baby: a case report |
title_short | Colon stenosis due to acute neonatal appendicitis in a preterm baby: a case report |
title_sort | colon stenosis due to acute neonatal appendicitis in a preterm baby: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6907132/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31830939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1873-0 |
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