Acute Appendicitis in Infants – A Report of Two Cases

Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in children. However, it is uncommon in neonates and infants. Often it can be challenging to diagnose acute appendicitis in children due to atypical clinical presentation and nonspecific symptoms. This is particularly true in neonates and infa...

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Autores principales: Vendhan, Kanimozhi C., Akhtarkhavari, Anis, Kathirvelu, Gopinathan, Subramanian, Balagopal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9878512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36714495
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_66_22
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author Vendhan, Kanimozhi C.
Akhtarkhavari, Anis
Kathirvelu, Gopinathan
Subramanian, Balagopal
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description Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in children. However, it is uncommon in neonates and infants. Often it can be challenging to diagnose acute appendicitis in children due to atypical clinical presentation and nonspecific symptoms. This is particularly true in neonates and infants. A high level of clinical suspicion is needed to diagnose infantile appendicitis. Delayed diagnosis is associated with higher perforation rates and increased disease-related morbidity. Imaging plays a key role in the prompt diagnosis of acute appendicitis and its complications. We report two cases of perforated appendicitis in babies <6 months old.
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spelling pubmed-98785122023-01-27 Acute Appendicitis in Infants – A Report of Two Cases Vendhan, Kanimozhi C. Akhtarkhavari, Anis Kathirvelu, Gopinathan Subramanian, Balagopal J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in children. However, it is uncommon in neonates and infants. Often it can be challenging to diagnose acute appendicitis in children due to atypical clinical presentation and nonspecific symptoms. This is particularly true in neonates and infants. A high level of clinical suspicion is needed to diagnose infantile appendicitis. Delayed diagnosis is associated with higher perforation rates and increased disease-related morbidity. Imaging plays a key role in the prompt diagnosis of acute appendicitis and its complications. We report two cases of perforated appendicitis in babies <6 months old. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9878512/ /pubmed/36714495 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_66_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Vendhan, Kanimozhi C.
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Subramanian, Balagopal
Acute Appendicitis in Infants – A Report of Two Cases
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title_fullStr Acute Appendicitis in Infants – A Report of Two Cases
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title_short Acute Appendicitis in Infants – A Report of Two Cases
title_sort acute appendicitis in infants – a report of two cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9878512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36714495
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_66_22
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