Acute chylous ascites mimicking acute appendicitis in a patient with pancreatitis

We report a case of acute chylous peritonitis mimicking acute appendicitis in a man with acute on chronic pancreatitis. Pancreatitis, both acute and chronic, causing the development of acute chylous ascites and peritonitis has rarely been reported in the English literature. This is the fourth publis...

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Main Authors: Smith, Emily K, Ek, Edmund, Croagh, Daniel, Spain, Lavinia A, Farrell, Stephen
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The WJG Press and Baishideng 2009
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761567/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19824123
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.15.4849
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