[Foreign body decubitus: unusual cause of acute appendicitis].
The authors describe the origin and the physiopathological events in acute appendicitis. They show an uncommon case of acute appendicitis. The aetiology was an opaque radiation foreign body causing a subacute abdominal disease. At operation the authors discovered the above body free in the abdominal cavity; the appendix was not in ischemic phase but completely cut off bycecal plant. They suppose aetiology to be of a decubitus origin.
Conti
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Divisione di Chirurgia A, USSL 6, Ospedale S. Giovanni Bosco, Torino.
Gentilli
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Mauri
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000209:etiology*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010529:Peritoneal Cavity; D011859:Radiography