UNUSUAL CASE OF SUPPURATIVE APPENDICITIS

An unusual case of appendicitis.

Suppurative appendicitis at colonoscopy.

cy department with complaints of diffuse abdominal pain and a change in bowel habits for the past 4 days. He denied nausea, vomiting or fever. His medical history included diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, cerebral stroke, and ischemic heart disease. He had no past surgical history. On presentation, he was in good general condition and the abdomenwas soft, depressive, with diffuse disco...

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...

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.

Incidental Diagnostic and Treatment of a Suppurative Appendicitis at Colonoscopy

WE HEREIN REPORT A PATIENT WITH ACUTE APPENDICITIS WHO WAS DIAGNOSED BY COLONOSCOPY: a 54-year-old woman with normal physical examination and laboratory results within normal limits. The case had shown an erythematous and edematous bulging polypoid lesion with purulent discharging from appendiceal orifice into the cecum. At colonoscopy, appendix appeared as an erythematous and edematous bulging...