Acute Epiploic Appendagitis: A Nonsurgical Abdominal Pain
Autor: | Ciro Stavolo, Antonio Brillantino, Marco Di Serafino, Francesca Iacobellis, Piero Trovato, Antonio Pinto, Luigia Romano |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Abdominal pain medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid Computed tomography Case Report General Medicine lcsh:RC86-88.9 Diverticulitis medicine.disease Appendicitis 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Epiploic appendagitis 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pathognomonic 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Medicine Radiology medicine.symptom business Surgical interventions Rare disease |
Zdroj: | Case Reports in Emergency Medicine Case Reports in Emergency Medicine, Vol 2019 (2019) |
ISSN: | 2090-6498 2090-648X |
Popis: | Epiploic appendagitis is a relatively rare disease characterized by an inflammation of fat-filled serosal outpouchings of the large intestine, called epiploic appendices. Diagnosis of epiploic appendagitis is made challenging by the lack of pathognomonic clinical features and should therefore be considered as a potential diagnosis by exclusion first of all with appendicitis or diverticulitis which are the most important causes of lower abdominal pain. Currently, with the increasing use of ultrasound and computed tomography in the evaluation of acute abdominal pain, epiploic appendagitis can be diagnosed by characteristic diagnostic imaging features. We present a case of epiploic appendagitis with objective of increasing knowledge of this disease and its diagnostic imaging findings, in order to reduce harmful and unnecessary surgical interventions. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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