Ewha Med J.  2007 Sep;30(2):97-100. 10.12771/emj.2007.30.2.97.

A Case of Acute Appendicitis Diagnosed during Colonoscopy

• Park JJ
• Shim KN
• Kim IS
• Park JK
• Lee KJ
• Lee JB
• Yoon JY
• Won HS
• Cho IJ

• KMID: 1963452
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12771/emj.2007.30.2.97

Abstract

Acute appendicitis is the one of the most common operative disease in general surgery following by acute cholecystitis and intestinal obstruction, and most of the acute appendicitis is diagnosed at the emergency room. Especially, because the number of patient who present atypical symptoms of acute appendicitis increases, it is hard to be diagnosed as acute appendicitis and it is often misdiagnosed as other disease. We report one case of acute appendicitis diagnosed by colonoscopy performed to evaluate for atypical abdominal pain.

Keyword

Acute appendicitis; Colonoscopy

MeSH Terms

Abdominal Pain
Appendicitis*
Cholecystitis, Acute
Colonoscopy*
Emergency Service, Hospital
Humans
Intestinal Obstruction