Left-sided acute appendicitis: Once Bitten twice shy

Once bitten, twice shy.

Kartagener's syndrome and acute appendicitis.

Kartagener's syndrome is a combination of situs inversus totalis, sinusitis and bronchiectasis. Left sided appendicitis can present with problems in diagnosis and during surgery. We present here a case of Kartagener's syndrome and left sided appendicitis successfully managed in a peripheral hospital in Bahawalnagar, Pakistan.

Decision making in right-sided diverticulitis.

AIM To evaluate systematically our nine-year experience in treating right-sided diverticulitis of the colon, and to explore its clinical and radiological relationship. METHODS The clinical and radiological data of 40 patients with colonic diverticulitis treated in Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, from 1993 through 2002 were reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS The average age of the patients ...

Appendicitis in a malrotated gut: an unusual cause of left upper quadrant abdominal pain.

In this case report, we present a case of young male with left sided acute appendicitis who presented with left upper quadrant abdominal pain. The purpose of this report is to increase awareness in the emergency physicians and young surgeons of this rare presentation, with high suspicion of index could lead to facilitate early recognition and decrease morbidity and mortality.

[Acute appendicitis in situs inversus totalis].

Situs inversus totalis is a relatively rare congenital anatomic anomaly in which there is complete right to left reversal (transposition) of the thoracic and abdominal organs The incidence of acute appendicitis with situs inversus totalis is between 0.016% and 0.024%. We present two cases of situs inversus totalis with acute appendicitis. Appendicectomy was performed on both patients as an emer...