Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 11
Letter to the Editor
Unusual course of epiploic appendicitis

707-708

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3796/2015

Ainara Iriarte Rodríguez, Silvia Goñi Esarte, Jose Manuel Zozaya Urmeneta, Federico Bolado Concejo, María Laura Álvarez Gigli,

Abstract
Epiploic appendicitis is a benign and self-limited disease, due to inflammation of the epiploic appendices. The diagnosis is established by imaging techniques, avoiding treatments, interventions and unnecessary hospitalizations. Management is conservative. Complications are rare and chronicity is exceptional.
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Iriarte Rodríguez A, Goñi Esarte S, Zozaya Urmeneta J, Bolado Concejo F, Álvarez Gigli M. Unusual course of epiploic appendicitis. 3796/2015


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Publication history

Received: 06/04/2015

Accepted: 25/04/2015

Online First: 08/10/2015

Published: 30/10/2015

Article revision time: 16 days

Article Online First time: 185 days

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