Type 3B malrotation presented with acute appendicitis as left renal colic

North American Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 328-330

  Ozkan, Fuat ^a   Yurttutan, Nursel ^a   Inci, Mehmet Fatih ^c   Akpinar, Erhan ^b  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Elmadag State Hospital   (Turkey)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Left lower quadrant pain; Left sided appendicitis; Midgut malrotation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE MALROTATION; KIDNEY COLIC; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE;

EID: 84864085130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19472714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1947-2714.98597     Document Type: Article

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