Acute Right-Sided Abdominal Pain in an Adolescent: Expect the Unexpected

Acute right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain is a common presenting complaint in the emergency department (ED). The most common cause is acute appendicitis, generally requiring surgical intervention. We present a rare cause of RLQ abdominal pain mimicking acute appendicitis.

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Autores principales: Abuelazm, Somaya, Kanumalla, Harsha, Taborda-Alvarez, Marvic, Eisdorfer, Jacob, Basak, Ratna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8387207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34462683
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16649
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author Abuelazm, Somaya
Kanumalla, Harsha
Taborda-Alvarez, Marvic
Eisdorfer, Jacob
Basak, Ratna
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description Acute right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain is a common presenting complaint in the emergency department (ED). The most common cause is acute appendicitis, generally requiring surgical intervention. We present a rare cause of RLQ abdominal pain mimicking acute appendicitis.
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spelling pubmed-83872072021-08-29 Acute Right-Sided Abdominal Pain in an Adolescent: Expect the Unexpected Abuelazm, Somaya Kanumalla, Harsha Taborda-Alvarez, Marvic Eisdorfer, Jacob Basak, Ratna Cureus Pediatrics Acute right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain is a common presenting complaint in the emergency department (ED). The most common cause is acute appendicitis, generally requiring surgical intervention. We present a rare cause of RLQ abdominal pain mimicking acute appendicitis. Cureus 2021-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8387207/ /pubmed/34462683 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16649 Text en Copyright © 2021, Abuelazm 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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Abuelazm, Somaya
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title Acute Right-Sided Abdominal Pain in an Adolescent: Expect the Unexpected
title_full Acute Right-Sided Abdominal Pain in an Adolescent: Expect the Unexpected
title_fullStr Acute Right-Sided Abdominal Pain in an Adolescent: Expect the Unexpected
title_full_unstemmed Acute Right-Sided Abdominal Pain in an Adolescent: Expect the Unexpected
title_short Acute Right-Sided Abdominal Pain in an Adolescent: Expect the Unexpected
title_sort acute right-sided abdominal pain in an adolescent: expect the unexpected
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8387207/
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