Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 11
Letter to the Editor
Granulomatous appendicitis as an uncommon cause of abdominal pain. Description of a case

704-705

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3763/2015

Carmen López Ramos, Ana Fuentes Coronel, Santiago Rodríguez Gómez, Jesús Pinto Blázquez,

Abstract
Granulomatous appendicitis is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen. Its etiology can be infectious in nature, noninfectious or idiopathic. We present the case of a patient of whom we got to know about due to an urgent colonoscopy. At the cecum, the appendicular fold was thickened and the mucosa had erythema and nodularity. The diagnosis is made by pathology, as in the majority of cases in this entity. The surgical treatment is curative.
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Publication history

Received: 11/03/2015

Accepted: 07/04/2015

Online First: 10/07/2015

Published: 30/10/2015

Article revision time: 17 days

Article Online First time: 121 days

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