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Monday, July 23, 2012

Apendagitis epiploica




Epiploic appendagitis - Clinical characteristics of an uncommon surgical diagnosis
Sand M. et al. BMC Surgery 2007, 7:11 doi:10.1186/1471-2482-7-11
"In patients with localized, sharp, acute abdominal pain not associated with other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, fever or atypical laboratory values, the diagnosis of EA should be considered. Although infrequent up to date, with the increase of primary abdominal CT scans and ultrasound EA may well be diagnosed more frequently in the future.