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Chronic Appendicitis, the Lesser-Known Form of Appendiceal Inflammation: A Case Report

Chronic appendicitis is a rare condition involving appendiceal inflammation as these conditions typically present acutely and are treated with appendectomy. However, in a small minority of patients, appendicitis can have a mild presentation and become recurrent or chronic appendicitis. Due to the ac...

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Autores principales: Lee, Charles K, Pelenyi, Stephanie S, Fleites, Orlando, Velez, Veronica, Alaimo, Kayla L, Ramcharan, Darren N, Tiesenga, Frederick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8684444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934581
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19718
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author Lee, Charles K
Pelenyi, Stephanie S
Fleites, Orlando
Velez, Veronica
Alaimo, Kayla L
Ramcharan, Darren N
Tiesenga, Frederick
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description Chronic appendicitis is a rare condition involving appendiceal inflammation as these conditions typically present acutely and are treated with appendectomy. However, in a small minority of patients, appendicitis can have a mild presentation and become recurrent or chronic appendicitis. Due to the acute nature and immediate treatment of patients presenting with typical symptoms of appendicitis, chronic appendicitis has been often overlooked and/or misdiagnosed. We present a case in which a 50-year-old male presented with right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain of one-month duration. Computed tomography (CT) imaging showed evidence of lymph node enlargement near the patient’s appendix, raising suspicion of chronic appendicitis. The patient underwent a successful laparoscopic appendectomy.
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spelling pubmed-86844442021-12-20 Chronic Appendicitis, the Lesser-Known Form of Appendiceal Inflammation: A Case Report Lee, Charles K Pelenyi, Stephanie S Fleites, Orlando Velez, Veronica Alaimo, Kayla L Ramcharan, Darren N Tiesenga, Frederick Cureus Gastroenterology Chronic appendicitis is a rare condition involving appendiceal inflammation as these conditions typically present acutely and are treated with appendectomy. However, in a small minority of patients, appendicitis can have a mild presentation and become recurrent or chronic appendicitis. Due to the acute nature and immediate treatment of patients presenting with typical symptoms of appendicitis, chronic appendicitis has been often overlooked and/or misdiagnosed. We present a case in which a 50-year-old male presented with right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain of one-month duration. Computed tomography (CT) imaging showed evidence of lymph node enlargement near the patient’s appendix, raising suspicion of chronic appendicitis. The patient underwent a successful laparoscopic appendectomy. Cureus 2021-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8684444/ /pubmed/34934581 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19718 Text en Copyright © 2021, Lee 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.
spellingShingle Gastroenterology
Lee, Charles K
Pelenyi, Stephanie S
Fleites, Orlando
Velez, Veronica
Alaimo, Kayla L
Ramcharan, Darren N
Tiesenga, Frederick
Chronic Appendicitis, the Lesser-Known Form of Appendiceal Inflammation: A Case Report
title Chronic Appendicitis, the Lesser-Known Form of Appendiceal Inflammation: A Case Report
title_full Chronic Appendicitis, the Lesser-Known Form of Appendiceal Inflammation: A Case Report
title_fullStr Chronic Appendicitis, the Lesser-Known Form of Appendiceal Inflammation: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Chronic Appendicitis, the Lesser-Known Form of Appendiceal Inflammation: A Case Report
title_short Chronic Appendicitis, the Lesser-Known Form of Appendiceal Inflammation: A Case Report
title_sort chronic appendicitis, the lesser-known form of appendiceal inflammation: a case report
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8684444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934581
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19718
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