Intestinal Angioedema: A Mimic of an Acute Abdomen

Visceral angioedema presents with features mimicking an acute abdomen, causing a great challenge in the diagnosis of the disease thus delaying the treatment. A high degree of radiological suspicion and clinical correlation will help in identifying this less-known entity, avoiding unnecessary surgery...

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Autores principales: Pal, Nilkanth L, Fernandes, Yasmin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9986968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36891016
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34619
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description Visceral angioedema presents with features mimicking an acute abdomen, causing a great challenge in the diagnosis of the disease thus delaying the treatment. A high degree of radiological suspicion and clinical correlation will help in identifying this less-known entity, avoiding unnecessary surgery. CT scanning is the preferred investigation, but concomitant ultrasonography improves the diagnostic efficacy of CT scanning.
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spelling pubmed-99869682023-03-07 Intestinal Angioedema: A Mimic of an Acute Abdomen Pal, Nilkanth L Fernandes, Yasmin Cureus Radiology Visceral angioedema presents with features mimicking an acute abdomen, causing a great challenge in the diagnosis of the disease thus delaying the treatment. A high degree of radiological suspicion and clinical correlation will help in identifying this less-known entity, avoiding unnecessary surgery. CT scanning is the preferred investigation, but concomitant ultrasonography improves the diagnostic efficacy of CT scanning. Cureus 2023-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9986968/ /pubmed/36891016 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34619 Text en Copyright © 2023, Pal 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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Intestinal Angioedema: A Mimic of an Acute Abdomen
title Intestinal Angioedema: A Mimic of an Acute Abdomen
title_full Intestinal Angioedema: A Mimic of an Acute Abdomen
title_fullStr Intestinal Angioedema: A Mimic of an Acute Abdomen
title_full_unstemmed Intestinal Angioedema: A Mimic of an Acute Abdomen
title_short Intestinal Angioedema: A Mimic of an Acute Abdomen
title_sort intestinal angioedema: a mimic of an acute abdomen
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9986968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36891016
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