Apendagite epiplóica: aspectos clínicos e radiológicos / Epiploic appendagitis: clinical and radiological aspects
Arq. gastroenterol
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45(2): 163-165, abr.-jun. 2008. ilus
Article
in Portuguese
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| ID: lil-485941
RESUMO
Apendagite epiplóica é uma doença inflamatória abdominal incomum. Foram avaliados, retrospectivamente, os prontuários de 44 pacientes com diagnóstico de apendagite epiplóica atendidos no Hospital Barra DOr, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, no período entre fevereiro de 2005 e setembro de 2006, sendo 82 por cento homens e 18 por cento mulheres, com média de idade de 44,7 anos. Buscou-se caracterizar o quadro clínico-laboratorial e radiológico desses pacientes. As alterações laboratoriais mais freqüentes foram piúria e leucocitose, cada uma presente em 5 por cento dos casos. O diagnóstico foi feito por tomografia computadorizada de abdome com achado de lesão ovóide em cólon descendente em 52 por cento dos pacientes. A resolução do quadro clínico foi obtida com tratamento conservador.
ABSTRACT
Epiploic appendagitis is an uncommon inflammatory abdominal disease. Data of 44 patients with a clinical diagnosis of appendagitis were retrospectively evaluated regarding laboratory and imaging findings. They were admitted to Barra DOr Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, from February 2005 to September 2006. Eighty-two percent were male and 18 were female, with median age of 44.7 years. The most frequent laboratory findings were hematuria in urinalysis and leucocitosis, presenting in 5 percent of cases each. Diagnosis was obtained through computed tomography showing paracolic oval lesions, mainly over the descending colon in 52 percent of patients. Patients were treated with analgesics and anti-inflammatory in an outpatient basis. Recovery was uneventful under conservative treatment.
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LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Torsion Abnormality
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Abdominal Pain
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Colitis
Type of study:
Observational study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Portuguese
Journal:
Arq. gastroenterol
Journal subject:
Gastroenterology
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital Barra D'OR/BR
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