[Errors and difficulties in the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic abdomen in children]

C Sabetay; I Singer; A Zavate; O Ciobanu; E Cârstoiu; A Stoica; Anca Maloş; I Farcaş; J Kamel; I Hams; A Kastrati

[Errors and difficulties in the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic abdomen in children]

Chirurgia (Bucur). 2002 Jul-Aug;97(4):365-71.

[Article in Romanian]

Authors

C Sabetay¹, I Singer, A Zavate, O Ciobanu, E Cârstoiu, A Stoica, Anca Maloş, I Farcaş, J Kamel, I Hams, A Kastrati

Affiliation

¹ Disciplina chirurgie pediatrică, Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie, Craiova.

PMID: 12731256

Abstract

The authors are reviewing on a lot of 2844 cases between 1996 and 2000 the difficult problems of differential diagnosis between acute surgical abdomen in children and intestinal tuberculosis, abdominal tumors and inflammatory diseases such as acute osteomielitis. They are presenting 13 particular cases in which the acute abdomen diagnosis was difficult or even omitted.

Publication types

Case Reports
English Abstract

MeSH terms

Abdomen, Acute / diagnosis*
Abdomen, Acute / therapy
Adolescent
Appendicitis / diagnosis
Appendicitis / therapy
Child
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Gastrointestinal Diseases / diagnosis
Gastrointestinal Diseases / etiology
Gastrointestinal Diseases / therapy
Humans
Infant
Intestinal Neoplasms / diagnosis
Intestinal Neoplasms / therapy
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / diagnosis
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / therapy
Male
Peritonitis, Tuberculous / diagnosis
Peritonitis, Tuberculous / therapy
Retrospective Studies
Treatment Outcome