A Case Report of Laparoscopic Left-Sided Appendectomy in a Child With Situs Inversus

Acute appendicitis classically elicits right-sided abdominal pain. Abdominal pain in patients with situs inversus may create a diagnostic challenge. We share a case of a seven-year-old boy who presented to the emergency department with left lower quadrant abdominal pain and tenderness. A chest x-ray...

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Autores principales: Khudhayr, Essa A, Ali, Abdullah A, Alameer, Ehab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9128767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35637818
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24426
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description Acute appendicitis classically elicits right-sided abdominal pain. Abdominal pain in patients with situs inversus may create a diagnostic challenge. We share a case of a seven-year-old boy who presented to the emergency department with left lower quadrant abdominal pain and tenderness. A chest x-ray showed dextrocardia and an abdominal ultrasound confirmed left-sided appendicitis. Diagnostic laparoscopy and appendectomy were uneventful. Thorough peri-operative evaluation and planning are key to a successful outcome in this rare condition
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spelling pubmed-91287672022-05-29 A Case Report of Laparoscopic Left-Sided Appendectomy in a Child With Situs Inversus Khudhayr, Essa A Ali, Abdullah A Alameer, Ehab Cureus Pediatrics Acute appendicitis classically elicits right-sided abdominal pain. Abdominal pain in patients with situs inversus may create a diagnostic challenge. We share a case of a seven-year-old boy who presented to the emergency department with left lower quadrant abdominal pain and tenderness. A chest x-ray showed dextrocardia and an abdominal ultrasound confirmed left-sided appendicitis. Diagnostic laparoscopy and appendectomy were uneventful. Thorough peri-operative evaluation and planning are key to a successful outcome in this rare condition Cureus 2022-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9128767/ /pubmed/35637818 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24426 Text en Copyright © 2022, Khudhayr 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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A Case Report of Laparoscopic Left-Sided Appendectomy in a Child With Situs Inversus
title A Case Report of Laparoscopic Left-Sided Appendectomy in a Child With Situs Inversus
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title_short A Case Report of Laparoscopic Left-Sided Appendectomy in a Child With Situs Inversus
title_sort case report of laparoscopic left-sided appendectomy in a child with situs inversus
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