| Traumatic appendicitis in minor blunt abdominal injury. | |
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PMID: 22672177 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Trauma has been reported as a cause of appendicitis on several cases in the literature. The present study reports the relationship between blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) of injury severity score less than 4 and appendicitis. A 17-year-old girl developed appendicitis after a minor BAT. An ecchymosis at the right lower quadrant misled the diagnosis, which was made 1 day later. Laparotomy revealed an inflamed appendix, a few enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes, contusion, as well as punctuated bleeding sites of the caecum. Moreover, based on a brief literature review, the different pathophysiological mechanisms and the difficulties of diagnosis of this entity are discussed. It is suggested that appendicitis should be considered as a possibility in the setting of right lower quadrant pain following minor BAT, when there is clinical suspicion of an inflammatory process within the right iliac fossa. |
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Konstantinos A Paschos; Konstantinos Boulas; Apostolos Liapis; Eleftheria Georgiou; Xenos Vrakas |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA Volume: 24 ISSN: 1742-6723 ISO Abbreviation: Emerg Med Australas Publication Date: 2012 Jun |
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Created Date: 2012-06-07 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101199824 Medline TA: Emerg Med Australas Country: Australia |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 343-6 Citation Subset: IM |
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© 2012 The Authors. EMA © 2012 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine. |
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Second Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Drama, Drama, Greece. |
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