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Dificultades en el diagnóstico de enteritis lúpica: presentación de un caso

Rev. méd. Chile; 147 (8), 2019
In lupus enteritis, circulating pathological immune complexes and thrombosis of intestinal vessels may occur, resulting in acute abdominal pain. We report a 24-year-old woman without a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), admitted for abdominal pain. An exploratory laparotomy found an appendici...

Cuerpo extraño en intestino delgado
Foreign Body in the Small Intestine

Rev. cuba. cir; 58 (2), 2019
RESUMEN Se presenta el caso de un paciente masculino de 39 años de edad, que acude al cuerpo de guardia del Hospital General Docente Abel Santamaría Cuadrado por presentar un cuadro de dolor abdominal de tres días de evolución. Se interviene quirúrgicamente con el diagnóstico presuntivo de apendici...

Apendicectomías: ¿llega tarde el paciente o las complicamos nosotros?

Prensa méd. argent; 105 (2), 2019
Appendicitis is the inflammation of the vermiform appendix. Acute appendictis is the most common surgical emergency, and the most frequent cause of abdominal pain. It is considered that between 7 to 12% of the world population will develop the disease in some ciurcumstances of their lifes, being more fre...

Impact of the appendiceal position on the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric appendicitis

ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate how symptoms vary according to the appendiceal position in pediatric patients and to demonstrate that the laparoscopic approach is safe and effective in any appendiceal location by comparing each location to another. Methods: The medical records of 1,736 children ag...

Score de Alvarado en pacientes apendicectomizados

Prensa méd. argent; 105 (1), 2019
Alvarado score is a practical score for the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis used as a clinical resource for diagnosing this disease. Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of an acute abdomen requiring surgery, with a lifetime risk of about 7 %. The Alvarado score was originally designed more ...

Correlation of clinical data and the Alvarado's Score as predictors of acute appendicitis

ABSTRACT Objective: To correlate the patient's clinical data and the Alvarado's Score as predictors of acute appendicitis. Methods: This is an observational, descriptive and prospective study performed at a public urgency and emergency hospital in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, between July and Decembe...

Fascitis necrotizante de la pared abdominal como presentación infrecuente de una hernia de Garengeot: caso clínico

Rev. méd. Chile; 146 (5), 2018
Garengeot's hernia corresponds to the presence of the appendix within a femoral hernia, associated or not with acute appendicitis. The diagnosis of this uncommon situation is usually done during surgery. Furthermore, the clinical presentation as necrotizing fasciitis is a rare condition. We report a 54 y...

Hernia de Garengeot. A propósito de un caso
De Garengeot´s hernia. Apropos of a case

Rev. medica electron; 40 (2), 2018
RESUMEN El epónimo hernia De Garengeot queda reservado para describir la presencia del apéndice cecal dentro de un saco herniario crural. Es infrecuente el hallazgo del apéndice dentro del canal femoral, situación que se presenta en el 0.9 % de las hernias femorales. La presencia de apendicitis dentr...

Acute appendicitis mimicking acute scrotum: a rare complication of a common abdominal inflammatory disease

ABSTRACT Introduction: Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical disease of the abdomen in clinical practice, affecting mainly young adults. It has a wide variety of clinical presentations, due to the anatomical variation of the cecal appendix. Its presentation as acute scrotum and scrotal abscess ...

Correlación clínica, imagenológica, escalas de valoración, intraoperatoria y anatomo–patológica, para el diagnóstico de apendicitis aguda y disminución de los casos negativos
Clinical, imaging , assessment scales, intraoperative and anatomo-pathological correlation, for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis and decrease of negative cases

Hosp. Aeronáut. Cent; 13 (1), 2018
Introducción: La apendicitis aguda es una de las causas de abdomen agudo quirúrgico más frecuente en nuestro medio, y su diagnóstico es principalmente clínico. Sin embargo, la tasa de apendicetomías negativas o en blanco continúan constantes. Es por ello que el conocim...