A Rare Intra-Operative Sighting of Appendiceal Diverticulitis

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Patrick Jones Artemis Fedder Colin Harris Oddai Alkhazaaleh

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Artemis Fedder
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, East Lancashire, UK

A B S T R A C T

Appendiceal diverticulitis is a rare diagnosis and culprit for acute appendicitis. The majority of these cases are diagnosed post-operatively on histopathology. In the following case it was grossly identifiable intraoperatively. Our treatment was appendicectomy. The purpose of this article was to provide pictorial evidence of this exceedingly rare intra-operative finding.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Fri 03, Jul 2020
Accepted: Mon 13, Jul 2020
Published: Sat 18, Jul 2020

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© 2023 Artemis Fedder. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSCR.2020.04.05