Acute Appendicitis in a Child With Acute Leukemia and Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report and Literature Review

Acute appendicitis is a rare but important complication in children with leukemia. It can be difficult to diagnose, and it has a complicated disease course, especially in patients receiving chemotherapy. Awareness of these complications is critical, particularly in cases where surgical intervention...

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Autores principales: Ali, Alaa, Alhindi, Saeed, Alalwan, Adel A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7325351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32617245
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8858
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description Acute appendicitis is a rare but important complication in children with leukemia. It can be difficult to diagnose, and it has a complicated disease course, especially in patients receiving chemotherapy. Awareness of these complications is critical, particularly in cases where surgical intervention is required. We report a child with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia who presented with acute appendicitis. He was successfully treated with broad-spectrum empiric antibiotics and a delayed laparoscopic appendectomy. 
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spelling pubmed-73253512020-07-01 Acute Appendicitis in a Child With Acute Leukemia and Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report and Literature Review Ali, Alaa Alhindi, Saeed Alalwan, Adel A Cureus Pediatrics Acute appendicitis is a rare but important complication in children with leukemia. It can be difficult to diagnose, and it has a complicated disease course, especially in patients receiving chemotherapy. Awareness of these complications is critical, particularly in cases where surgical intervention is required. We report a child with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia who presented with acute appendicitis. He was successfully treated with broad-spectrum empiric antibiotics and a delayed laparoscopic appendectomy.  Cureus 2020-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7325351/ /pubmed/32617245 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8858 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ali 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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Acute Appendicitis in a Child With Acute Leukemia and Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Acute Appendicitis in a Child With Acute Leukemia and Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Acute Appendicitis in a Child With Acute Leukemia and Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Acute Appendicitis in a Child With Acute Leukemia and Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Acute Appendicitis in a Child With Acute Leukemia and Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Acute Appendicitis in a Child With Acute Leukemia and Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort acute appendicitis in a child with acute leukemia and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: a case report and literature review
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8858
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