Cecal epiploica appendix torsion in a female child mimicking acute appendicitis: a case report.
Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of the right lower quadrant acute abdominal pain in children. Some other conditions including cecal epiploica appendix torsion, can simulate acute abdomen. Epiploica appendix torsion usually occurs in the sigmoid colon and rarely in the cecum of adult males. In children, this entity is extremely rare and may represent a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. We report a case of an 8-year-old Greek girl, presented with signs and symptoms mimicking acute abdomen. Our patient is the younger one among the other four with cecal epiploica appendix torsion that had been reported in the literature.
Christianakis
Efstratios
E
Pendeli Children’s Hospital, Palaia Pendeli, Athens, Greece. xristianakis@in.gr
Paschalidis
Nikolaos
N
Filippou
Georgios
G
Smailis
Dimitrios
D
Chorti
Maria
M
Rizos
Spiros
S
Filippou
Dimitrios
D