Traumatic appendicitis: a case report and literature review.
Appendicitis and trauma may exist together, which causes an interesting debate whether trauma has led to appendicitis. We report a case of appendicitis after an abdominal trauma. Our patient developed acute appendicitis following a stab wound in the right iliac fossa. Surgical exploration confirmed the traumatic origin of appendicitis, appendectomy was performed and our patient made an excellent recovery. In non operative management of abdominal trauma, physical examinations and radiological explorations should be repeated in order to diagnose traumatic appendicitis.
School of medicine and pharmacy of Fez, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, BP: 1893; km2,200, route de sidi Hrazem, Fez 30000, Morocco. bouassriaabdesslam@gmail.com.
Abdesslam
A
Bouassria
Karim
K
Ibn Majdoub
Issam
I
Yazough
Abdelmalek
A
Ousadden
Khalid
K
Mazaz
Khalid Ait
KA
Taleb