An unusual distended abdomen

A Newborn with Distended Abdomen.

A male neonate was born to a 35-year-old mother at an outside hospital at 39 1/7 weeks gestation via emergency cesarean section due to decreased fetal movements. The infant had respiratory distress secondary to meconium aspiration and was noted to have a large, distended abdomen at birth. Subsequent ultrasound confirmed hepatosplenomegaly with no evidence of liver mass or ascites. By report, al...

An unusual cause of an acute surgical abdomen.

0 Dr. Richard Wolfe: We received a call via the paramedic dispatcher that in approximately three minutes we were going to receive a ‘IO-year old female with back and abdominal pain, no obtainable blood pressure, and a heart rate of 140. Due to the patient’s proximity to the hospital and the acuity of the patient’s condition, there was not time for the paramedics to communicate with us via the b...

Self-assessment corner An unusual cause of an 'acute abdomen'

Accepted 13 May 1998 A 16-year-old girl presented to her general practitioner after 4 days of a severe sore throat, difficulty in swallowing, muscle and joint aches and anorexia. There was no history of foreign travel or recent infectious disease contacts. She was found to have swollen cervical lymph nodes with a pyrexia and as a viral illness was diagnosed, no antibiotics were given. As the in...

Unusual Foreign Body in Abdomen

Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children

Appendicitis epiploicae is described as a rare entity in an 8-year-old boy presented with the features of acute abdomen simulating acute appendicitis. Surgical exploration revealed a torsion of appendices epiploicae of the cecum. The excision of infarcted epiploicae with seromuscular inversion resulted in satisfactory recovery. Authors describe this uncommon cause of pediatric acute abdomen alo...