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      Appendicitis epiploicae: An unusual cause of acute abdomen in children

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          Appendicitis epiploicae is described as a rare entity in an 8-year-old boy presented with the features of acute abdomen simulating acute appendicitis. Surgical exploration revealed a torsion of appendices epiploicae of the cecum. The excision of infarcted epiploicae with seromuscular inversion resulted in satisfactory recovery. Authors describe this uncommon cause of pediatric acute abdomen along with the review of pertinent literature.

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          Epiploic disorders. Conditions of the epiploic appendages.

          C Organ, Jeffrey Carmichael (1985)
          Disorders of the epiploic appendages are rarely diagnosed preoperatively and usually result from torsion with subsequent infarction. No diagnostic test or clinical symptoms are pathognomonic of this process, which is a disease of middle age and rarely life-threatening, and the most common preoperative diagnosis is acute appendicitis. An analysis of case information reported in the surgical literature has been combined with our recent experience involving ten cases. Fifty-eight percent of the patients in this collected series were male, and the average age in both sexes was 42 years. The sigmoid colon was the most frequent site of these disorders (41.5%), and acute appendicitis was the most common preoperative diagnosis (37.7%). The treatment is ligation, excision, and occasionally seromuscular inversion. When encountered at exploration, this entity may represent the sole etiology of the abdominal pain if exploration is otherwise negative.
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            Laparoscopic Diagnosis and Treatment of an Acute Epiploic Appendagitis with Torsion and Necrosis Causing an Acute Abdomen

            J.A. Vázquez-Frias, Pablo Castañeda, Salvador Valencia … (2000)
            Acute epiploic appendagitis is not as rare as previously thought; but, since the presenting signs and symptoms are not specific, preoperative diagnosis has been rarely made. At the present time, a laparoscopic exploration of the peritoneal cavity will establish the correct diagnosis, and the treatment can be provided during the same procedure. Herein, a case of a 63-year-old female patient with acute abdominal syndrome caused by a necrotic epiploic appendix that was successfully diagnosed and treated laparoscopically is described. A review of the literature is made, as well.
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              Torsion of an epiploic appendix mimicking acute appendicitis.

              H Hurreiz, Callisto Madavo (2005)
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg
                Journal ID (publisher-id): JIAPS
                Title: Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
                Publisher: Medknow Publications (India )
                ISSN (Print): 0971-9261
                ISSN (Electronic): 1998-3891
                Publication date (Print): Apr-Jun 2008
                Volume: 13
                Issue: 2
                Pages: 83-84
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                Departments of Pediatric and Neonatal Surgery, Ibn Sina Hospital, Kuwait
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                Correspondence: Dr. Vipul Gupta, Department of Pediatric Surgery, State of Kuwait. E-mail: drvipul75@ 123456yahoo.co.in
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                Publisher ID: JIAPS-13-81
                DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.43035
                PMC ID: 2788444
                PubMed ID: 20011477
                SO-VID: 2f7ade58-6d28-4b94-89d2-47d777757ed5
                Copyright © © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Surgery
                Keywords: children,appendicitis epiploicae,acute abdomen
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                Keywords: children, appendicitis epiploicae, acute abdomen

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