The Appendix: A Rare Case of an Appendiceal Collision Tumor

Appendicitis is a common cause of right lower quadrant pain. However, appropriate diagnostic evaluation and a high clinical suspicion can reveal alternative etiologies that are not so commonly encountered. In this report, we present a rare case of an appendiceal collision tumor involving two distinc...

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Autores principales: Ruiz, Samuel G, Geraghty, Feargal, Padron, Dalina, Chacon, Daniel, Kahane, Gerardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8428163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34522528
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17050
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author Ruiz, Samuel G
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description Appendicitis is a common cause of right lower quadrant pain. However, appropriate diagnostic evaluation and a high clinical suspicion can reveal alternative etiologies that are not so commonly encountered. In this report, we present a rare case of an appendiceal collision tumor involving two distinct neoplasms as the source of the patient's pain and describe how thoughtful clinical maneuvering led to its diagnosis and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-84281632021-09-13 The Appendix: A Rare Case of an Appendiceal Collision Tumor Ruiz, Samuel G Geraghty, Feargal Padron, Dalina Chacon, Daniel Kahane, Gerardo Cureus Pathology Appendicitis is a common cause of right lower quadrant pain. However, appropriate diagnostic evaluation and a high clinical suspicion can reveal alternative etiologies that are not so commonly encountered. In this report, we present a rare case of an appendiceal collision tumor involving two distinct neoplasms as the source of the patient's pain and describe how thoughtful clinical maneuvering led to its diagnosis and treatment. Cureus 2021-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8428163/ /pubmed/34522528 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17050 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ruiz 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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