Watch What You Swallow!—A Rare Cause of Not So Rare Entity Presenting to the Emergency Room
oleh: Pratik Mukherjee, Daniel Wu Peng, Ashish Chawla
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2019-06-01 |
Deskripsi
Foreign-body ingestion is a rare cause for acute appendicitis. The authors report a case of a 48-year-old man who presented with abdominal pain for 3 days. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a foreign body in the appendix with peri-appendicular inflammatory changes. The patient underwent a successful appendectomy with complete recovery.