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CRSLS
January 2025
Department of Surgery, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Drs. Aljunaydil, Mattar, Almufawaz, AlOthman, and Alalem).
Front Oral Health
September 2024
Department of Basic Sciences, Universidad de Antioquia U de A, Medellín, Colombia.
Introduction: Untreated periodontitis significantly increases the risk of tooth loss, often delaying treatment due to asymptomatic phases. Recent studies have increasingly associated poor dental health with conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, obesity, pneumonia, cardiovascular disease, and renal illness. Despite these connections, limited research has investigated the relationship between appendicitis and periodontal disease.
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September 2024
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University Health Application and Research Center, Zonguldak, Turkey.
Detailed anamnesis and systematic physical examination are often relevant in the diagnostic routine of acute appendicitis. However, physicians are increasingly motivated to obtain radiological approval. Inherent limitations due to radiologists' experience and the presenting anatomy may result in contradictory outcomes between the described and intraoperative findings.
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September 2024
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Cureus
April 2024
Internal Medicine, Wellington Regional Medical Center, Wellington, USA.
Appendiceal signet ring cell carcinoma is an exceedingly rare neoplasm which makes up only 4% of carcinomas of the appendix. It is a rare cause of abdominal pain which can mimic acute appendicitis. This case reports a 77-year-old female who presented to the emergency room with a complaint of right lower quadrant abdominal pain.
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