McSwain type V appendix intussusception
| Autor: | Pedro N. Leão, Jorge Cotter, Maria Lígia Sousa |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade do Minho |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Adult medicine.medical_specialty 030105 genetics & heredity Appendix Medicina Clínica [Ciências Médicas] Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intussusception (medical disorder) medicine Appendectomy Cecal Diseases Humans Ciências Médicas::Medicina Clínica medicine.diagnostic_test Sutures business.industry General surgery Incidence (epidemiology) General Medicine medicine.disease 3. Good health Endoscopy Appendicular intussusception Abdominal Pain medicine.anatomical_structure Treatment Outcome Intestinal intussusception Female Laparoscopy Presentation (obstetrics) business Intussusception 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Rare disease |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 1757-790X |
| Popis: | [Excerpt] Intestinal intussusception consists of distal migration of a segment from the intestine to the adjacent intestinal lumen. Appendicular intussusception (AI) is a rare disease that constitutes a clinical challenge. The incidence of AI is estimated at 0.01%.1 It is five times more frequent in men.2 Despite imaging and endoscopic advances, diagnosis remains a difficult challenge. The presentation of AI varies from asymptomatic to chronic pain.3 This case reports a 33-year-old woman with past gastro-oesophageal surgery and complementary appendectomy, which was evaluated for the chronic pain in the right lower quadrant. Colonoscopy (figure 1A,B) revealed intussusception of appendix type V. A laparoscopic caecum resection was performed. The postoperative was uneventful. Histology revealed AI with lumen obliteration by foreign body (suture of previous intervention). [...] (undefined) info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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