Unusual Appendicitis

Unusual course of epiploic appendicitis.

Epiploic appendicitis is a benign and self-limited disease, due to inflammation of the epiploic appendices. The diagnosis is established by imaging techniques, avoiding treatments, interventions and unnecessary hospitalizations. Management is conservative. Complications are rare and chronicity is exceptional.

An unusual case of appendicitis.

Trichobezoar--an unusual cause of acute appendicitis.

Various exotic foreign bodies have been found in the lumen of acutely inflamed appendices. The list includes parasites, pips, chips of bone, metal and wood. In the following case the cause of obstruction was a trichobezoar.

A Case of Appendicitis of Unusual Etiology

The patient, a girl of seventeen years, was admitted to the MIater Infirmnorum Hospital on 3rd November, 1933, as a case of acute appendicitis. She gave a typical history of abdominial pain follovwed by nausea and vomiting, the pain later settling down in the right iliac fossa, where, on admissioni, she was tender and rigid. Immecliate operation was decided onl. At operationi niothing unusual w...

Comamonas testosteroni: An Unusual Bacteria Associated with Acute Appendicitis.