Imaging findings in patients with-right lower quadrant pain: alternative diagnoses to appendicitis |
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Authors: | KA Jain JP Quam DS Ablin EO Gerscovich DK Shelton |
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Affiliation: | Department of Radiology, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento 95817, USA. |
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Abstract: | Patients with right 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. |
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