title: Clinical mimics of acute appendicitis: Is there any role of imaging?
abstract: Acute appendicitis (AA) is a common surgical emergency. Accurate and timely diagnosis of AA is essential for successful outcome. Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis, exclusion of AA as well as diagnosing alternative clinical conditions which can closely simulate AA. A correct alterative diagnosis may obviate the need of unnecessary appendectomy or may even change the treatment regime altogether. This pictorial essay illustrates various clinical conditions which mimicked AA clinically during our day to day practice.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India.
authors.forename: Jyotindu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Debnath
authors.affiliation: Commandant, 155 Base Hospital, C/O 99 APO, India.
authors.forename: Vivek
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Professor & Head, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ravikumar
authors.affiliation: Senior Adviser (Surgery), Military Hospital Jalandhar Cantt, C/O 56 APO, India.
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Senior Adviser (Radiology), Command Hospital (Northern Command), C/O 56 APO, India.
authors.forename: Samar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.affiliation: Classified Specialist (Obstetrics and Gynecology), Command Hospital (Central Command), Lucknow, India.
authors.forename: Santhanan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sampath
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India.
authors.forename: Vijay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chandran
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India.
authors.forename: Vinay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Maurya
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India.
authors.forename: Mukul
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bhatia
keywords: Acute appendicitis; Alternative diagnosis; Clinical mimics; Imaging