Incidental contrast opacification of the appendix secondary to urological intervention

A 23-year-old otherwise well male, with right ureteric stent in situ placed electively for a 9-mm symptomatic pelviureteric junction stone underwent a right ureteropyeloscopy, retrograde pyelogram laser lithotripsy and stent exchange for stone clearance. The procedure was uncomplicated. Following st...

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Autores principales: Hunn, Samuel, Winston, Joshua, Davies, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9957575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36846840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad061
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description A 23-year-old otherwise well male, with right ureteric stent in situ placed electively for a 9-mm symptomatic pelviureteric junction stone underwent a right ureteropyeloscopy, retrograde pyelogram laser lithotripsy and stent exchange for stone clearance. The procedure was uncomplicated. Following stent removal on day 2, the patient developed acute right lower quadrant pain, which was investigated with non-contrast CT abdomen. The scan demonstrated a contrast-filled vermiform appendix, secondary to vicarious contrast excretion. This case report describes a rare manifestation of vicarious contrast excretion and explains this phenomenon.
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spelling pubmed-99575752023-02-25 Incidental contrast opacification of the appendix secondary to urological intervention Hunn, Samuel Winston, Joshua Davies, Nicholas J Surg Case Rep Case Report A 23-year-old otherwise well male, with right ureteric stent in situ placed electively for a 9-mm symptomatic pelviureteric junction stone underwent a right ureteropyeloscopy, retrograde pyelogram laser lithotripsy and stent exchange for stone clearance. The procedure was uncomplicated. Following stent removal on day 2, the patient developed acute right lower quadrant pain, which was investigated with non-contrast CT abdomen. The scan demonstrated a contrast-filled vermiform appendix, secondary to vicarious contrast excretion. This case report describes a rare manifestation of vicarious contrast excretion and explains this phenomenon. Oxford University Press 2023-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9957575/ /pubmed/36846840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad061 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Incidental contrast opacification of the appendix secondary to urological intervention
title_full Incidental contrast opacification of the appendix secondary to urological intervention
title_fullStr Incidental contrast opacification of the appendix secondary to urological intervention
title_full_unstemmed Incidental contrast opacification of the appendix secondary to urological intervention
title_short Incidental contrast opacification of the appendix secondary to urological intervention
title_sort incidental contrast opacification of the appendix secondary to urological intervention
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9957575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36846840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad061
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