Buscar en
Cirugía Española (English Edition)
Toda la web
Inicio Cirugía Española (English Edition) Perforated cecal diverticulum mimicking acute appendicitis
Journal Information
Vol. 100. Issue 7.
Pages 441 (July 2022)
Image of the month
Full text access
Perforated cecal diverticulum mimicking acute appendicitis
Divertículo cecal perforado que simula apendicitis aguda
Visits
154
Javier Gómez Sánchez
Corresponding author
Javiergomezsanchez.jg@gmail.com

Corresponding author.
, Rocio Forneiro Pérez, María Dolores Hernández García, Benito Mirón Pozo
Cirugía General, Hospital Clínico San Cecilio, Granada, Spain
This item has received
Article information
Full Text
Download PDF
Statistics
Figures (1)
Full Text

A 33-year-old man consulted for abdominal pain of 2 days’ evolution radiating to the right iliac fossa with fever of 38.3 °C. Laboratory tests showed leukocytosis of 13,480 cells/mL and C-reactive protein of 56 mg/l. An abdominal CT scan was performed, showing a thickened tubular structure with calcifications in its interior depending on the cecum, with inflammatory changes suggestive of acute appendicitis (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1
(0.2MB).

A laparotomy was performed where a normal calibre appendix was visualised and the presence of a perforated cecal diverticulum with enterolithiasis inside it, adjacent to the ileocaecal valve was observed (Fig. 1), so an ileocecectomy with mechanical lateral anastomosis was performed.

Financing

This article received no funding.

Conflict of interests

The authors have no conflict of interests to declare.

Please cite this article as: Gómez Sánchez J, Forneiro Pérez R, Hernández García MD, Mirón Pozo B. Divertículo cecal perforado que simula apendicitis aguda. Cir Esp. 2022;100:441.

Copyright © 2021. AEC
Article options
Tools
es en pt

¿Es usted profesional sanitario apto para prescribir o dispensar medicamentos?

Are you a health professional able to prescribe or dispense drugs?

Você é um profissional de saúde habilitado a prescrever ou dispensar medicamentos