Appendicitis with submucosal fecalith mimicking a submucosal tumor: a case report

BACKGROUND: Submucosal fecalith(s) mimicking submucosal tumors of the gastrointestinal lumen are rare. Moreover, accurate preoperative diagnosis of these entities is exceedingly difficult, and the mechanism(s) of their formation remains unclear. CASE PRESENTATION: A 40-year-old woman visited the aut...

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Autores principales: Bekki, Tomoaki, Fukuda, Toshikatsu, Moriuchi, Toshiyuki, Namba, Yosuke, Okimoto, Sho, Mukai, Shoichiro, Saito, Yasufumi, Oishi, Koichi, Nishida, Toshihiro, Ohdan, Hideki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33905033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-021-01169-9