Appendiculo-cecal intussusception: a case report and literature review

Intussusception of the appendix is a rare disease that constitutes a diagnostic challenge to the surgeon. Intussusception is defined as the telescoping of a segment of the gastrointestinal tract into an adjacent one. We are reporting a case of a 14-year-old boy who presented in our institution with...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Sunit, Khanal, Bhawani, Gurung, Roshan, Sah, Suresh Prasad, Gupta, Rakesh Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32855799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa246
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author Agrawal, Sunit
Khanal, Bhawani
Gurung, Roshan
Sah, Suresh Prasad
Gupta, Rakesh Kumar
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description Intussusception of the appendix is a rare disease that constitutes a diagnostic challenge to the surgeon. Intussusception is defined as the telescoping of a segment of the gastrointestinal tract into an adjacent one. We are reporting a case of a 14-year-old boy who presented in our institution with the features of acute appendicitis. On exploration appendiculo-cecal intussusception was found for which right hemicolectomy with ileotransverse colon anastomosis was done.
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spelling pubmed-74443132020-08-26 Appendiculo-cecal intussusception: a case report and literature review Agrawal, Sunit Khanal, Bhawani Gurung, Roshan Sah, Suresh Prasad Gupta, Rakesh Kumar J Surg Case Rep Case Report Intussusception of the appendix is a rare disease that constitutes a diagnostic challenge to the surgeon. Intussusception is defined as the telescoping of a segment of the gastrointestinal tract into an adjacent one. We are reporting a case of a 14-year-old boy who presented in our institution with the features of acute appendicitis. On exploration appendiculo-cecal intussusception was found for which right hemicolectomy with ileotransverse colon anastomosis was done. Oxford University Press 2020-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7444313/ /pubmed/32855799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa246 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Appendiculo-cecal intussusception: a case report and literature review
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