PNEUMOAPPENDIX AFTER AN INVERSION APPENDECTOMY - AN UNREPORTED RADIOLOGIC FINDING

Authors
BARONE GW CARTER TC HUDEC WA
Citation
Gw. Barone et al., PNEUMOAPPENDIX AFTER AN INVERSION APPENDECTOMY - AN UNREPORTED RADIOLOGIC FINDING, Southern medical journal, 90(12), 1997, pp. 1250-1252
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Southern medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00384348
Volume
90
Issue
12
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1250 - 1252
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-4348(1997)90:12<1250:PAAIA->2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
Radiographically detectable gas only occasionally fills the lumen of t he vermiform appendix (pneumoappendix), and the diagnostic significanc e of this gas remains unresolved in the radiologic literature. The fol lowing case report is a previously unreported finding of a postoperati ve plain abdominal radiograph showing a dilated pneumoappendix after a n inversion-ligation appendectomy. A brief review of the surgical tech nique is included to help explain these radiographic findings.