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BACKGROUND
The diagnostic assessment of right lower quadrant pain in children and adolescents is still a challenge. The aim of this study was to analyze the cases of complicated appendicitis wrongly diagnosed as nonspecific diarrhea, and based on the information obtained suggest a clear and simple
A 12-year-old girl presented with lower abdominal pain, nonbilious vomiting, and a severe secretory diarrhea. Infectious and noninfectious etiologies were ruled out, and she was found to have perforated acute appendicitis. It is essential to consider acute appendicitis in the differential diagnosis
Chronic diarrhea is defined as diarrhea that lasts longer than four weeks. Etiology of chronic diarrhea includes inflammatory bowel disease, malabsorption syndromes, irritable bowel disease, chronic parasitic infections, bacterial toxins, drugs and motility disorders. Plastron appendicitis is an
Aeromonas species is an infrequent pathogen causing travelers' diarrhea and gastroenteritis. No human case of appendicitis has been reported as a complication of Aeromonas infection until now. We describe a case of acute appendicitis associated with Aeromonas sobria infection acquired in Cebu,
Acute appendicitis, characterized as periumbilical pain, migrating to the right iliac fossa, is one of the most common acute surgical conditions. It is usually diagnosed on the basis of clinical signs and symptoms. However, some patients may present atypically and are prone to be misdiagnosed. We
BACKGROUND
Appendicitis is an uncommon diagnosis in very young children. It is frequently complicated by delays in diagnosis, perforation, and lengthy hospital stays.
OBJECTIVE
To review our recent experience with appendicitis among children younger than 3 years old, and to identify the independent
Authors report a case of 54-years-old patient, who presented to the hospital due to three-day history of weakness, abdominal pain and diarrhea. His general shape was severe, abdomen was tender at palpation in hypogastrium, peritoneal signs were positive, and blood tests showed highly elevated
BACKGROUND
During the swine influenza (H1N1) pandemic that began in 2009, many hospitalized adults had gastrointestinal symptoms. The most common symptoms associated with swine influenza (H1N1) were nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. In the experience of the authors, swine influenza was not complicated
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the clinical manifestations and identify independent diagnostic predictive factors for Crohn's disease (CD) initially diagnosed as appenicitis and treated by surgery.
METHODS
The medical records of patients diagnosed as acute appendicitis upon admission and treated by surgical
Twelve patients who underwent laparotomy for suspected acute appendicitis were found to have Crohn's disease of the terminal ileum. Appendectomy was performed in all although in only four patients was the appendix grossly inflamed. Postoperative complications, either abscess or fistula, developed in
BACKGROUND
A pregnancy complicated by ovarian endometrioma is rare. Other complications of ovarian endometrioma in pregnancy, i.e., rupture and infection are also rare.
METHODS
A 35-year-old woman, gravida 2, para 0-0-1-0, at 35 weeks' pregnancy, came to the hospital with a right abdominal pain. She