Abstract
Patients with fight lower quadrant (RLQ) pain referred for imaging studies with a clinical diagnosis of appendicitis may have other pathologic conditions mimicking appendicitis. Appropriate diagnostic imaging may establish other specific diagnoses and thereby play a significant role in determining proper medical or surgical treatment. In this pictorial essay, we present a spectrum of imaging findings in patients whose clinical features were suggestive of appendicitis, but the diagnoses of a broad spectrum of other diseases were established with the imaging studies. The differential diagnoses of diseases mimicking appendicitis are reviewed.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 693-698 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1997 |
Keywords
- Appendicitis
- Cecum, neoplasms
- Computed tomography
- Crohn disease
- Gastrointestinal tract, diseases
- Omentum, infarction
- Ultrasound
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
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Jain, K. A., Quam, J. P., Ablin, D. S., Gerscovich, E. O., & Shelton, D. K. (1997). Imaging findings in patients with right lower quadrant pain: Alternative diagnoses to appendicitis. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 21(5), 693-698. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004728-199709000-00003