TY - JOUR
T1 - Torsion, necrosis, and inflammation of an epiploic appendix of the large bowel
T2 - A diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma
AU - Chatziioannou, Achilles N.
AU - Asimacopoulos, Panayiotis J.
AU - Malone, Robert S.
AU - Pneumaticos, Spyros G.
AU - Safi, Hazim J.
PY - 1995/6
Y1 - 1995/6
N2 - We present the case of a young patient with abdominal pain of 3 weeks’ duration and a preoperative presumptive diagnosis of acute appendicitis, diverticulitis, colon perforation, or possibly neoplasm. Even after resection of a large mass involving the right colon, the diagnosis was not confirmed until surgical pathology identified torsion, partial necrosis, and inflammation of an epiploic appendix of the right colon.
AB - We present the case of a young patient with abdominal pain of 3 weeks’ duration and a preoperative presumptive diagnosis of acute appendicitis, diverticulitis, colon perforation, or possibly neoplasm. Even after resection of a large mass involving the right colon, the diagnosis was not confirmed until surgical pathology identified torsion, partial necrosis, and inflammation of an epiploic appendix of the right colon.
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U2 - 10.1097/00007611-199506000-00015
DO - 10.1097/00007611-199506000-00015
M3 - Article
C2 - 7777887
AN - SCOPUS:0029000937
SN - 0038-4348
VL - 88
SP - 662
EP - 663
JO - Southern Medical Journal
JF - Southern Medical Journal
IS - 6
ER -