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Recurrent stump appendicitis
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- W.B. Saunders, 2020.
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Abstract
- Acute appendicitis is one of the most common reasons for abdominal surgery. Stump appendicitis, one of the rare complications of appendicitis surgery, is an inflammation that develops in the remaining part of the appendix following surgery and occurs at a rate of 1/50.000 in cases with appendectomy. Although patients manifest the same findings as those with acute appendicitis on physical examination and laboratory tests, the history of previous appendectomy may cause delays in diagnosis. Complications such as perforation and peritonitis can develop if an early diagnosis cannot be made. In this article, we present the first case of recurrent stump appendicitis reported in the literature as far as we are aware. © 2020 Elsevier Inc.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Perforation
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General surgery
Perforation (oil well)
Peritonitis
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
Physical examination
Computed tomography
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Appendix
Appendicitis
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Acute appendicitis
Emergency Medicine
medicine
Stump appendicitis
business
Abdominal surgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....716b145d6c5d4dc1ed9ce59b1d7a949d
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.10.083