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Revista Colombiana de Cirugía
Print version ISSN 2011-7582On-line version ISSN 2619-6107
Abstract
VELEZ-BERNAL, Jorge Luis; GONZALEZ-DIAZ, Cristina Estefanía and JIMENEZ, Leidy Dayana Agudelo. Foreign body as a cause of complicated acute appendicitis. rev. colomb. cir. [online]. 2022, vol.37, n.1, pp.139-141. Epub Mar 21, 2022. ISSN 2011-7582. https://doi.org/10.30944/20117582.987.
Acute appendicitis is one of the most common pathologies in the hospital setting. The complicated forms can be caused by pointed, sharp, thin or elongated objects, accidentally ingested, and represent an unusual cause with a prevalence of 0.0005%.
Keywords : acute appendicitis; complicated; perforation; foreign body; acute abdomen; laparoscopy.