Appendicitis Caused by Endometriosis Within the Bowel Wall

Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdominal pain seen in the emergency room. Common etiologies include obstructing appendicolith and lymphoid adenopathy. Appendiceal endometriosis is rare and typically involves the serosal layer. This case report describes an unusual case...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Anupam K, Mann, Adam, Belizon, Avraham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Obstetrics/Gynecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32923215
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9614
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description Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdominal pain seen in the emergency room. Common etiologies include obstructing appendicolith and lymphoid adenopathy. Appendiceal endometriosis is rare and typically involves the serosal layer. This case report describes an unusual case of appendicitis secondary to endometriosis in the musclularis mucosa of the appendix in the 36-year-old lady with no prior history of endometriosis.
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spelling pubmed-74785602020-09-11 Appendicitis Caused by Endometriosis Within the Bowel Wall Gupta, Anupam K Mann, Adam Belizon, Avraham Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdominal pain seen in the emergency room. Common etiologies include obstructing appendicolith and lymphoid adenopathy. Appendiceal endometriosis is rare and typically involves the serosal layer. This case report describes an unusual case of appendicitis secondary to endometriosis in the musclularis mucosa of the appendix in the 36-year-old lady with no prior history of endometriosis. Cureus 2020-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7478560/ /pubmed/32923215 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9614 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gupta 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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Appendicitis Caused by Endometriosis Within the Bowel Wall
title Appendicitis Caused by Endometriosis Within the Bowel Wall
title_full Appendicitis Caused by Endometriosis Within the Bowel Wall
title_fullStr Appendicitis Caused by Endometriosis Within the Bowel Wall
title_full_unstemmed Appendicitis Caused by Endometriosis Within the Bowel Wall
title_short Appendicitis Caused by Endometriosis Within the Bowel Wall
title_sort appendicitis caused by endometriosis within the bowel wall
topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32923215
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9614
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