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Journal of IMAB - Annual Proceeding (Scientific Papers)
Publisher: Peytchinski, Gospodin Iliev
ISSN: 1312-773X (Online)
Issue: Volume 15, book 1, 2009
Subject Collection: Medicine
Page: 64 - 65
DOI: 10.5272/jimab.1512009_64
Online date: Aug. 11, 2009,
ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE APPENDICITIS WITH TYPICAL
CLINIC AND ATYPICAL LOCATION DUE TO MALROTATION OF COLON, AND HYDROCEPHALUS
/CASE REPORT/
Ludmil
M. Veltchev1, Krassimir M. Iliev2, Ognian N. Vassilev2
1) Fellow, Master’s Program in Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Henri
Bismuth Hepatobiliary Institute; 12-14, avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier,
94804 Villejuif Cedex, France; 2) Deparment of general surgery,
State hospital of Biala Slatina, Bulgaria.
ABSTRACT: Atypical appendix location due to malrotation
of colon may suggest many different inflammatory diseases and may provoke
physician’s misdiagnosis. In the reported case the clinical findings suggested
typical right lower quadrant symptomatology for appendicitis but the cecum
and acutely inflamed appendix were located in the epigastria. Association
of congenital anomalies such as hydrocephalus and malrotation of the cecum
are found.
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