Acute Appendicitis: An Extracolonic Manifestation of Colitis.

The current report is the case of a 30-year-old male patient who presented with symptomatology suggestive of appendicitis. However, careful history-taking and laboratory tests led to the diagnosis of colitis, resulting in successful nonsurgical management of this patient. Although both appendicitis and colitis are common conditions, they are rarely diagnosed concurrently.

Intra-Abdominal Actinomycosis Mimicking Malignant Abdominal Disease.

Abdominal actinomycosis is a rare infectious disease, caused by gram positive anaerobic bacteria, that may appear as an abdominal mass and/or abscess (Wagenlehner et al. 2003). This paper presents an unusual case of a hemodynamically stable 80-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with 4 weeks of worsening abdominal pain and swelling.