Epiploic Appendagitis in a Renal Transplant: A Case Report

Appendagitis is an inflammation of the epiploic fringes, generally unrecognized by the clinician. It is responsible for abdominal pain and may mimic other causes of acute abdomen. It can be primary or secondary. In this article, we describe the first case of primary epiploic appendagitis in a renal...

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Autores principales: El Bardai, Ghita, Jnyah, Nada, Chouhani, Basmat A, Kabbali, Nadia, Sqalli, Tarik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9594973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36312648
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29550
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author El Bardai, Ghita
Jnyah, Nada
Chouhani, Basmat A
Kabbali, Nadia
Sqalli, Tarik
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description Appendagitis is an inflammation of the epiploic fringes, generally unrecognized by the clinician. It is responsible for abdominal pain and may mimic other causes of acute abdomen. It can be primary or secondary. In this article, we describe the first case of primary epiploic appendagitis in a renal transplant patient who consulted for left inguinoscrotal pain, which was diagnosed as primary epiploic appendagitis.
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spelling pubmed-95949732022-10-28 Epiploic Appendagitis in a Renal Transplant: A Case Report El Bardai, Ghita Jnyah, Nada Chouhani, Basmat A Kabbali, Nadia Sqalli, Tarik Cureus General Surgery Appendagitis is an inflammation of the epiploic fringes, generally unrecognized by the clinician. It is responsible for abdominal pain and may mimic other causes of acute abdomen. It can be primary or secondary. In this article, we describe the first case of primary epiploic appendagitis in a renal transplant patient who consulted for left inguinoscrotal pain, which was diagnosed as primary epiploic appendagitis. Cureus 2022-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9594973/ /pubmed/36312648 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29550 Text en Copyright © 2022, El Bardai 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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Epiploic Appendagitis in a Renal Transplant: A Case Report
title Epiploic Appendagitis in a Renal Transplant: A Case Report
title_full Epiploic Appendagitis in a Renal Transplant: A Case Report
title_fullStr Epiploic Appendagitis in a Renal Transplant: A Case Report
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title_sort epiploic appendagitis in a renal transplant: a case report
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9594973/
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