4,329
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Beyond the commonest: right lower quadrant abdominal pain is not always appendicitis

, &
Pages 56-67 | Received 29 Aug 2019, Accepted 07 May 2020, Published online: 31 May 2020

References

  • Falch C, Haeberle H. Kirschniak A and Nissan A. Treatment of acute abdominal pain in the emergency room: a systematic review of the literature. Eur J Pain. 2014;18:902–913.
  • Cartwright A, Knudson M. Evaluation of acute abdominal pain in adults. Am Fam Physician. 2008;77(7):971–978.
  • Stoker J, Van Randen A, Laméris W, et al. Patients with acute abdominal pain. Radiology. 2009;253(1):31–46.
  • Canders C, Brown A, Chiem A. False positive appendicitis on bedside ultrasound. West J Emerg Med. 2014;15:832–833.
  • Fox JC, Hunt MJ, Zlidenny AM, et al. A retrospective analysis of emergency department ultrasound for acute appendicitis. Cal J Emerg Med. 2007;8:41–45.
  • Schulman H. CT and US in the diagnosis of appendicitis: an argument for CT. Radiology. 2010;255:3–7.
  • Sivit CJ. Controversies in emergency radiology: acute appendicitis in children—the case for CT. Emerg Radiol. 2004;10:238–240.
  • Petroianu A. Diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Int J Surg. 2012;10(3):115–119.
  • Hawkins JD, Thirlby RC. The accuracy and role of cross-sectional imaging in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Adv Surg. 2009;43:13–22.
  • Fiume I, Napolitano V, Del Genio G, et al. Cecum cancer underlying appendicular abscess. Case report and review of literature. World J Emerg Surg. 2006;1(1):11.
  • Khan S, Pawlak SE, Eggenberger JC, et al. Acute colonic perforation associated with colorectal cancer. Am Surg. 2001;67(3):261–264.
  • Shine R, Zarifeh A, Frampton C, et al. Appendicitis presenting as the first manifestation of colorectal carcinoma: a 13-year retrospective study. NZ Med J. 2017;130:1459–1468.
  • Singh A, Gervais D, Hahn P, et al. Acute epiploic appendagitis and its mimics. RadioGraphics. 2005;25(6):1521–1534.
  • Legome EL, Belton AL, Murray RE, et al. Epiploic appendagitis: the emergency department presentation. J Emerg Med. 2002;22(1):9–13.
  • Van Breda Vriesman AC, Puylaert JB. Epiploic appendagitis and omental infarction: pitfalls and look-alikes. Abdom Imaging. 2002;27(1):20–28.
  • Tirumani S, Fraser-Hill M, Shabana W, et al. Mucinous neoplasms of the appendix: a current comprehensive clinicopathologic and imaging review. Cancer Imaging. 2013;13(1):14–25.
  • Pathol AA, Pai RK, Longacre TA. Appendiceal mucinous tumors and pseudomyxoma peritonei: histologic features, diagnostic problems, and proposed classification. Adv Anat Pathol. 2005 Nov;12:291–311.
  • Tsokaki P, Misiakos E, Domi V, et al. Low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm presenting as an adnexal mass. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol. 2017;2017:7165321.
  • Faure M, Salgado R, Op de Beeck B, et al. Mucocele of the appendix: case report and review of literature. JBR–BTR. 2014;97(4):217–221.
  • Pickhardt P, Levy A, Rohrmann C, et al. Neoplasms of the appendix: radiologic spectrum of disease with pathologic correlation. RadioGraphics. 2003;23(3):645–662.
  • Ganeshan D, Bhosale P, Yang T, et al. Imaging features of carcinoid tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. AJR. 2013;201(4):773–786.
  • Baxi A, Chintapalli K, Katkar A, et al. Multimodality imaging findings in carcinoid tumors: a head-to-toe spectrum. RadioGraphics. 2017;37(2):516–536.
  • Ben-Yaacoub I, Boulay-Coletta I, Jullès M, et al. CT findings of misleading features of colonic diverticulitis. Insights Imaging. 2011 Feb;2:69–84.
  • Levine CD, Aizenstein O, Lehavi O, et al. Why we miss the diagnosis of appendicitis on abdominal CT: evaluation of imaging features of appendicitis incorrectly diagnosed on CT. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005;184(3):855–859.
  • Sreenivasan N, Kalyanpur A, Bhat A, et al. CT diagnosis of cecal diverticulitis. Ind J Radiol Imag. 2006;16(4):451–452.
  • Thompson J, Selvaraj D, Nicola R. Mimickers of acute appendicitis. J Am Osteopath Coll Radiol. 2014;3:10–21.
  • Purysko AS, Remer EM, Filho HM, et al. Beyond appendicitis: common and uncommon gastrointestinal causes of right lower quadrant abdominal pain at multidetector CT. Radiographics. 2011;31(4):927–947.
  • Han H, Kim H, Rehman A, et al. Appendiceal Crohn’s disease clinically presenting as acute appendicitis. World J Clin Cases. 2014 Dec;16(2):888–8.
  • Kee H, Park J, Yi D, et al. Case of intussusception with acute appendicitis. Pediatr Gastroenterol Hepatol Nutr. 2015 Jun;18:134–137.
  • Beh J, Uppaluri A, Koh B, et al. Fishbone perforated appendicitis. J Radiol Case Rep. 2016 Jul;10:14–22.
  • Mui LW, Lee HK, Malhotra R. MRI evaluation of acute abdominal pain in the pregnant patient. J Am Osteopath Coll Radiol. 2015;4:12–19.