Acute Epiploic Appendagitis: A Nonsurgical Abdominal Pain. (14th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Di Serafino, Marco; Iacobellis, Francesca; Trovato, Piero; Stavolo, Ciro; Brillantino, Antonio; Pinto, Antonio; Romano, Luigia
• Other Names: Papadopoulos Vasileios Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Case reports in emergency medicine. Volume 2019(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019-07-14
• Subjects: Emergency medicine -- Periodicals; Emergency Medicine; Emergency medicine; Periodicals; Periodicals; Case Reports; Fulltext; Internet Resources; Periodicals; 616.025
• DOI: 10.1155/2019/7160247
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2090-648X

Abstract

Abstract : Epiploic appendagitis is a relatively rare disease characterized by an inflammation of fat-filled serosal outpouchings of the large intestine, called epiploic appendices. Diagnosis of epiploic appendagitis is made challenging by the lack of pathognomonic clinical features and should therefore be considered as a potential diagnosis by exclusion first of all with appendicitis or diverticulitis which are the most important causes of lower abdominal pain. Currently, with the increasing use of ultrasound and computed tomography in the evaluation of acute abdominal pain, epiploic appendagitis can be diagnosed by characteristic diagnostic imaging features. We present a case of epiploic appendagitis with objective of increasing knowledge of this disease and its diagnostic imaging findings, in order to reduce harmful and unnecessary surgical interventions.