Partial Caecal Necrosis – a Rare Cause of Right-Sided Inferior Abdominal Pain and Tenderness

Partial caecal necrosis - a rare cause of right-sided inferior abdominal pain and tenderness.

INTRODUCTION Non-occlusive caecal infarction is a rare condition that has been described in association with a variety of clinical entities, generally due to a low-flow state, and has been reported to occur in association with chronic heart disease, open-heart surgery, certain drugs, and haemodialysis. The aim of this article is to describe the presentation, diagnosis and management of this unu...

Right-sided paraduodenal hernia: rare cause of recurrent abdominal pain.

Right-sided paraduodenal hernia (PH) is a rare congenital malformation that arises due to a defect in the rotation of the middle intestine during embryogenesis. Though it is usually an incidental finding on autopsy or during laparotomy, it can be responsible for episodes of recurring abdominal pain or even acute abdomen (1,2). A search of the literature only revealed three cases of rightsided P...

a rare cause of recurrent abdominal pain

a 30-year-old man presented with a nine-months history of repetitive abdominal pain simulating dyspepsia.  nine months before presentation, a local physician saw him, and he performed upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for him, and was diagnosed as a case of mild gastritis with oral omeprazole, but without any benefit. so the patient was seen at another center and was evaluated by abdominal compu...

Solitary caecal diverticulitis--a rare cause of right iliac fossa pain.

Caecal diverticulitis, although relativelyuncommon in the western population, presents an interesting diagnostic dilemma.' The clinical presentation usually is similar to acute appendicitis.2' I Intra-operatively, solitary caecal diverticulitismaybe difficult to distinguish from granulomatous disease or carcinoma.",4 We report a case of solitary caecal diverticulitis that presented with clinica...

Abdominal Pain and Tenderness