Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report

doi:10.1186/1757-1626-1-135

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Pitiakoudis M
Filippou G
Filippou D
Rizos S
Paschalidis N

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Case Report

Pelvic plastron secondary to acute appendicitis in a child presented as appendiceal intussusception. A case report

Efstratios Christianakis¹ , Anastasios Sakelaropoulos² , Constantinos Papantzimas³ , Michael Pitiakoudis⁴ , Georgios Filippou⁵ , Dimitrios Filippou⁵ , Spiros Rizos⁵ and Nikolaos Paschalidis⁵

¹Dept. of Paediatric Surgery, Pendeli Children's Hospital, Palea Pendeli, Athens, Greece

²Department of Radiology, Pendeli Children's Hospital, Palea Pendeli, Athens, Greece

³First Paediatric Department, Pendeli Children's Hospital, Palea Pendeli, Athens, Greece

⁴Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Thrace, Alexandroupoli, Greece

⁵Department of Anatomy, Nursing Faculty, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Cases Journal 2008, 1:135doi:10.1186/1757-1626-1-135


Published:	1 September 2008

Abstract

We report an unusual case of an 11-year-old Greek girl with complicated acute appendicitis. The pelvic plastron that had been formatted secondary to appendix perforation was mimicking appendiceal intussusception in the preoperative ultrasound and computed tomography images. Although acute complicated appendicitis and appendiceal intussusception may represent possible causes of acute abdomen no similar cases have reported in the literature.