Typhlitis: A Rare Appendicitis Mimic in a Young Healthy Female

Typhlitis, also known as neutropenic enterocolitis, is a rare but serious condition characterized by inflammation of the cecum causing right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain and fever. It typically affects immunocompromised patients with neutropenia, hematologic malignancies, AIDS, or those on immunosuppre...

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Autores principales: Reyes, Jonathan Vincent M, Syed, Salman B, Seen, Tasur, Sheth, Nirali, Kowalczyk, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8298106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322332
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15839
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author Reyes, Jonathan Vincent M
Syed, Salman B
Seen, Tasur
Sheth, Nirali
Kowalczyk, Christopher
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description Typhlitis, also known as neutropenic enterocolitis, is a rare but serious condition characterized by inflammation of the cecum causing right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain and fever. It typically affects immunocompromised patients with neutropenia, hematologic malignancies, AIDS, or those on immunosuppressive therapy. This is an entity that should be considered in any differential for a patient with febrile RLQ pain, not just those with obvious immunosuppression.
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spelling pubmed-82981062021-07-27 Typhlitis: A Rare Appendicitis Mimic in a Young Healthy Female Reyes, Jonathan Vincent M Syed, Salman B Seen, Tasur Sheth, Nirali Kowalczyk, Christopher Cureus Internal Medicine Typhlitis, also known as neutropenic enterocolitis, is a rare but serious condition characterized by inflammation of the cecum causing right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain and fever. It typically affects immunocompromised patients with neutropenia, hematologic malignancies, AIDS, or those on immunosuppressive therapy. This is an entity that should be considered in any differential for a patient with febrile RLQ pain, not just those with obvious immunosuppression. Cureus 2021-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8298106/ /pubmed/34322332 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15839 Text en Copyright © 2021, Reyes et al. https://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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Typhlitis: A Rare Appendicitis Mimic in a Young Healthy Female
title Typhlitis: A Rare Appendicitis Mimic in a Young Healthy Female
title_full Typhlitis: A Rare Appendicitis Mimic in a Young Healthy Female
title_fullStr Typhlitis: A Rare Appendicitis Mimic in a Young Healthy Female
title_full_unstemmed Typhlitis: A Rare Appendicitis Mimic in a Young Healthy Female
title_short Typhlitis: A Rare Appendicitis Mimic in a Young Healthy Female
title_sort typhlitis: a rare appendicitis mimic in a young healthy female
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8298106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322332
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15839
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