Cecal Diverticulitis in a Geriatric Patient

The authors present the case of a 70-year-old man with cecal (right-sided) diverticulitis. Cecal diverticulitis is frequently confused with appendicitis, which could potentially lead to unnecessary intervention. Cecal diverticulitis is usually seen in the fourth decade of life, whereas the patient w...

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Autores principales: Kanyadan, Pooja, Lopez Ortiz, Carlos, Mangal, Rohan K, Stead, Thor S, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9488658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36158341
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28231
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author Kanyadan, Pooja
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Ganti, Latha
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description The authors present the case of a 70-year-old man with cecal (right-sided) diverticulitis. Cecal diverticulitis is frequently confused with appendicitis, which could potentially lead to unnecessary intervention. Cecal diverticulitis is usually seen in the fourth decade of life, whereas the patient who presented was significantly older. The risk factors, clinical presentation, imaging findings, and emergency department management are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-94886582022-09-23 Cecal Diverticulitis in a Geriatric Patient Kanyadan, Pooja Lopez Ortiz, Carlos Mangal, Rohan K Stead, Thor S Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine The authors present the case of a 70-year-old man with cecal (right-sided) diverticulitis. Cecal diverticulitis is frequently confused with appendicitis, which could potentially lead to unnecessary intervention. Cecal diverticulitis is usually seen in the fourth decade of life, whereas the patient who presented was significantly older. The risk factors, clinical presentation, imaging findings, and emergency department management are discussed. Cureus 2022-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9488658/ /pubmed/36158341 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28231 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kanyadan 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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Kanyadan, Pooja
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Cecal Diverticulitis in a Geriatric Patient
title Cecal Diverticulitis in a Geriatric Patient
title_full Cecal Diverticulitis in a Geriatric Patient
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title_short Cecal Diverticulitis in a Geriatric Patient
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topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9488658/
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