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- Title
Acute appendicitis during the clinical course of COVID‐19 in a 13‐year‐old boy: Complication or coincidental?
- Authors
Nurullayev, Elnur; Gördü, Bilge; Özsürekçi, Yasemin; Haliloglu, Mithat; Soyer, Tutku
- Abstract
Gastrointestinal symptoms appear to be one of the most common presentations of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, later named COVID‐19. The symptoms such as nausea, emesis, abdominal pain, and diarrhoea may be recognised as either a finding of COVID‐19 or prominent presentation of multi‐inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS‐C). COVID‐19 may present with acute appendicitis and/or may mimic its clinical findings. Although, coexistence of acute appendicitis and COVID‐19 has been well documented, it is not clear whether appendicitis is a complication of COVID‐19 or coincidence in children. A 13‐year‐old boy who developed acute appendicitis during the clinical course of COVID‐19 is presented to discuss the possibility of causal relationship between appendicitis and COVID‐19 in children.
- Subjects
APPENDICITIS; COVID-19; APPENDECTOMY; MULTISYSTEM inflammatory syndrome in children; ABDOMINAL pain; SYNDROMES in children; SARS-CoV-2
- Publication
Surgical Practice, 2021, Vol 25, Issue 4, p232
- ISSN
1744-1625
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1744-1633.12526