APPENDICITIS WITH MIDGUT MALROTATION- A RARE CLINICAL ENTITY

Abstract

Acute appendicitis is a common clinical entity where patient will present mostly with pain abdomen and typical right iliac fossa tenderness. But Acute appendicitis associated with midgut malrotation is a rare entity and patients present with pain in the left side of abdomen which often lead to missing the diagnosis of a surgical emergency unless patient is subjected to further radiological evaluation. Herein we report one such case of a 27yr old male who presented to us with complaints of pain in left upper abdomen and vomiting.