A Gut Feeling: An Extremely Rare Case of Missed Appendicitis
This case outlines the emergency department and surgical course of a 63-year-old male presenting with acute onset abdominal pain. Appendicitis was high on the differential for the treating physician, but after the computed tomography and laboratory evaluation were unremarkable, the patient was disch...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2014-11-01
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Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jj8p19s |