A disappearing abdominal mass in a teenage female

We present a case of a 17-year-old female who presented to an urgent care for evaluation of a right-sided abdominal mass. Prior to her evaluation, she had undergone advanced imaging and exploratory laparotomy that did not reveal a diagnosis for her symptoms. Our case emphasizes the importance of lis...

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Autores principales: Kahle, Jordan, Lakhani, Jay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32547764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20927965
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description We present a case of a 17-year-old female who presented to an urgent care for evaluation of a right-sided abdominal mass. Prior to her evaluation, she had undergone advanced imaging and exploratory laparotomy that did not reveal a diagnosis for her symptoms. Our case emphasizes the importance of listening to the patient who persists in describing a particular clinical symptom and highlights the forgotten, yet historically well-known, diagnosis of nephroptosis.
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spelling pubmed-72735452020-06-15 A disappearing abdominal mass in a teenage female Kahle, Jordan Lakhani, Jay SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report We present a case of a 17-year-old female who presented to an urgent care for evaluation of a right-sided abdominal mass. Prior to her evaluation, she had undergone advanced imaging and exploratory laparotomy that did not reveal a diagnosis for her symptoms. Our case emphasizes the importance of listening to the patient who persists in describing a particular clinical symptom and highlights the forgotten, yet historically well-known, diagnosis of nephroptosis. SAGE Publications 2020-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7273545/ /pubmed/32547764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20927965 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273545/
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