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Case Report
A vaguely symptomatic man with a ruptured appendix and localized peritonitis
1 University of Maryland Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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DNP, ENP-C, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland, 110 S Paca Street, 6th Floor, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201
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Article ID: 100059Z06KB2019
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Blosser KM, Richardson AC. A vaguely symptomatic man with a ruptured appendix and localized peritonitis. Case Rep Int 2019;8:100059Z06KB2019.ABSTRACT
An otherwise healthy 24-year-old male was sent to the emergency department by an urgent care center with remote concern for appendicitis. The patient was afebrile, eating and drinking normally and non-leukocytotic, but because of mild tenderness to palpation in the right lower quadrant of his abdomen and symptomatology persisting for seven days computed tomography was obtained which revealed a ruptured appendix and localized peritonitis. The patient was admitted to the acute care emergency surgery service and managed non-operatively with antibiotics.
Keywords: Computed tomography, Peritonitis, Ruptured appendicitis
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Kelly M Blosser - Substantial contributions to conception and design, Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published
Adam C Richardson - Substantial contributions to conception and design, Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published
Guaranter of SubmissionThe corresponding author is the guarantor of submission.
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