Recurrent Pain Abdomen Following Appendectomy: Stump Appendicitis, a Surgeon's Dilemma

Overview

Journal Clin Case Rep

Date 2017 Mar 8

PMID 28265375

Citations 5

Authors

Tuhin Shah

Rakesh Kumar Gupta

Rikesh Jung Karkee

Chandra Shekhar Agarwal

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Abstract

Although there are many causes of pain right lower abdomen, stump appendicitis should always strike a clinician in postappendectomy patients even if it is a rare diagnosis. Here, we are discussing a 35-year female with stump appendicitis who underwent completion appendectomy.

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