Acute appendicitis in the left iliac fossa
International Journal of Development Research
Acute appendicitis in the left iliac fossa
Received 17th July, 2020; Received in revised form 26th August, 2020; Accepted 08th September, 2020; Published online 24th October, 2020
Copyright © 2020, André Afonso Marrafon et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Within the most common surgical clinical emergencies in medical practice, acute appendicitis is listed. The case refers to a male patient, in whom he was admitted to an emergency care unit, reporting abdominal pain in the lower left quadrant, fever for two days, without pre-existing comorbidities, denying smoking and drinking. Total abdominal tomography observed internal organs in a reverse or mirrored position in relation to the usual topography, with the heart to the right of the mediastinum, stomach and spleen in the right hypochondrium, liver and gallbladder in the left hypochondrium, in addition to the inferior vena cava and aorta that are in switched position. Diagnostic imaging associated with clinical and laboratory tests for uncomplicated acute appendicitis in the left iliac fossa due to situs inversus.
