PSEUDOAPPENDICITIS PRECEDING INFECTIOUS-MONONUCLEOSIS

Authors
ADCOCK PM NAGARAJ HS MARSHALL GS
Citation
Pm. Adcock et al., PSEUDOAPPENDICITIS PRECEDING INFECTIOUS-MONONUCLEOSIS, Pediatric emergency care, 14(5), 1998, pp. 345-346
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,"Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
Pediatric emergency care → ACNP
ISSN journal
07495161
Volume
14
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
345 - 346
Database
ISI
SICI code
0749-5161(1998)14:5<345:PPI>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
In patients with infectious mononucleosis, abdominal pain is usually a ttributed to visceral enlargement. A teenage girl with symptoms of app endicitis was found at laparotomy to have mesenteric adenitis. Postope ratively, she developed classic features of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-i nduced mononucleosis. The lymphoproliferation characteristic of EBV in fection can cause severe localized abdominal pain that predates the on set of mononucleosis.