A Patient with an Unusual Cause Right Lower Quadrant Pain and Vomiting: Pyelonephritis of an Ectopic Right Kidney Masquerading as Acute Appendicitis-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A Patient with an Unusual Cause Right Lower Quadrant Pain and Vomiting: Pyelonephritis of an Ectopic Right Kidney Masquerading as Acute Appendicitis

Published:2009 Issue: Volume:2009 Page:1-3
ISSN:1687-9627
Container-title:Case Reports in Medicine
language:en
Short-container-title:Case Reports in Medicine

Author:

Lossius Michele N.¹,Araya Carlos E.¹,Henry Dwayne D.²,Neiberger Richard E.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA

2. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA

Abstract

An adolescent female presented with one day of abdominal pain and clinical findings of acute appendicitis. CT scan revealed an ectopic right kidney with changes of acute pyelonephritis. This paper underscores the importance of imaging the right pelvis prior to surgical intervention in suspected cases of acute appendicitis in children.

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

General Medicine

Link

http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/crim/2009/638501.pdf

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