Acute Appendicitis Presenting as Unusual Left Upper Quadrant Pain
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acute appendicitis presenting as unusual left upper quadrant pain
appendicitis is the most common abdominal disease that requires surgery in the emergency ward. it usually presents as right lower quadrant pain, but may rarely present as left upper quadrant (luq) pain due to congenital anatomical abnormalities of the intestine. we report a patient who complained of persistent luq abdominal pain and was finally diagnosed by computed tomography (ct) as congenita...
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Appendicitis is the most common abdominal disease that requires surgery in the emergency ward. It usually presents as right lower quadrant pain, but may rarely present as left upper quadrant (LUQ) pain due to congenital anatomical abnormalities of the intestine. We report a patient who complained of persistent LUQ abdominal pain and was finally diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) as congenita...
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عنوان ژورنال: Iranian Journal of Radiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1735-1065,2008-2711
DOI: 10.5812/iranjradiol.6326