SARS-CoV-2 infection may result in appendicular syndrome: Chest CT scan before appendectomy

The initial clinical presentation of coronavirus disease 2019 may be appendicular syndrome. An abdominal CT scan ruled out a diagnosis of appendicitis and a chest CT scan yielded a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. CT scan is required before considering emergency surgery for acute appendicitis.

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Autores principales: Pautrat, K., Chergui, N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7158827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32387057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2020.04.007
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spelling pubmed-71588272020-04-15 SARS-CoV-2 infection may result in appendicular syndrome: Chest CT scan before appendectomy Pautrat, K. Chergui, N. J Visc Surg Article The initial clinical presentation of coronavirus disease 2019 may be appendicular syndrome. An abdominal CT scan ruled out a diagnosis of appendicitis and a chest CT scan yielded a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. CT scan is required before considering emergency surgery for acute appendicitis. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 2020-06 2020-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7158827/ /pubmed/32387057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2020.04.007 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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