Epiploic appendagitis is a rare cause of acute abdomen. Depending on the site of occurrence, it can mimic any cause of acute abdomen or disease of the colon and caecal appendix; making its preoperative diagnosis very difficult. We present here a case of a 7-year-old boy misdiagnosed preoperatively as acute appendicitis and later on, upon surgical exploration, found to have caecal appendagitis. ...

Although acute appendicitis is the most common cause of abdomen, abdomen due to appendicular diverticulitis extremely rare. The frequency varies between 0,004% and 2,1%. General surgery specialists can easily skip diagnosis diverticulitis. For this reason, be made mostly after pathological examination surgery. In presentation, a patient who was operated for evaluated as on his discussed.

Evaluation of a female patient who presents with an acute abdomen must always consider surgical and gynecologic disorders. Laparoscopy and pelviscopy have had a major impact on the surgical approach in gynecology. Most acute abdomens can now be approached laparoscopically. Certain conditions that are discussed require the traditional laparotomy. Preservation of reproductive capability has a maj...

a 52-year-old post-menopausal female was admitted to the emergency room due to acute onset of abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant. there was no history of trauma of the abdomen. contrast-enhanced multi-detector computed tomography (mdct) of the abdomen and pelvis revealed a massive right retroperitoneal hematoma and contrast extravasation from a right ovarian artery aneurysm. digital sub...