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Article: Appendicitis: what helps to make the diagnosis?(Diagnostic Imaging Review)(Case study)
- Article from:
- JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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CASE
A 73-year-old female presented to the emergency department with nontraumatic abdominal pain in the fight lower quadrant (RLQ). She stated that the pain began several hours earlier and had been almost continuous. She had no significant medical history and took no medications. She had not had a bowel movement since the pain began, but she denied seeing any blood in the stool prior to this. Her WBC count was minimally elevated. She was afebrile. There was moderate tenderness to palpation in the RLQ. CT of the abdomen was performed with IV, oral, and rectal contrast (see Figure 1 and Figure 2, page 80). What do these images reveal?
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