Acute Appendicitis Secondary to Appendiceal Endometriosis

Endometriosis in the vermiform appendix is a rare condition that affects women of childbearing age. The clinical picture can simulate inflammatory acute abdominal pain, especially acute appendicitis. Laboratory and imaging tests may assist in the diagnosis but are not conclusive. This article report...

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Autores principales: Drumond, João Paulo Nunes, de Melo, André Luis Alves, Germini, Demétrius Eduardo, Morrell, Alexander Charles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7569452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8813184
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author Drumond, João Paulo Nunes
de Melo, André Luis Alves
Germini, Demétrius Eduardo
Morrell, Alexander Charles
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description Endometriosis in the vermiform appendix is a rare condition that affects women of childbearing age. The clinical picture can simulate inflammatory acute abdominal pain, especially acute appendicitis. Laboratory and imaging tests may assist in the diagnosis but are not conclusive. This article reports a case of acute appendicitis caused by appendiceal endometriosis for which laparoscopic appendectomy and diagnostic confirmation were performed after histopathological analysis.
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spelling pubmed-75694522020-10-22 Acute Appendicitis Secondary to Appendiceal Endometriosis Drumond, João Paulo Nunes de Melo, André Luis Alves Germini, Demétrius Eduardo Morrell, Alexander Charles Case Rep Surg Case Report Endometriosis in the vermiform appendix is a rare condition that affects women of childbearing age. The clinical picture can simulate inflammatory acute abdominal pain, especially acute appendicitis. Laboratory and imaging tests may assist in the diagnosis but are not conclusive. This article reports a case of acute appendicitis caused by appendiceal endometriosis for which laparoscopic appendectomy and diagnostic confirmation were performed after histopathological analysis. Hindawi 2020-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7569452/ /pubmed/33101752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8813184 Text en Copyright © 2020 João Paulo Nunes Drumond et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Drumond, João Paulo Nunes
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Acute Appendicitis Secondary to Appendiceal Endometriosis
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title_full Acute Appendicitis Secondary to Appendiceal Endometriosis
title_fullStr Acute Appendicitis Secondary to Appendiceal Endometriosis
title_full_unstemmed Acute Appendicitis Secondary to Appendiceal Endometriosis
title_short Acute Appendicitis Secondary to Appendiceal Endometriosis
title_sort acute appendicitis secondary to appendiceal endometriosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7569452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8813184
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