Appendicitis and salmonellosis, a coincidence or etiopathogenically related?
Vána, J.; Bulejcík, J.; Johanes, R.; Kosecká, G.; Bencatová, A.
Rozhledy V Chirurgii Mesicnik Ceskoslovenske Chirurgicke Spolecnosti 82(11): 580-582
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-9351 PMID: 14686257 Document Number: 553774
The authors describe a rare case report of a female patient with acute appendicitis, where the course was masked by gastroenteritis complicated with sepsis with a simultaneous course of imported infection with Salmonella type C (Kentucky). The attention is drawn to the fact that even such frequent abdominal emergency as appendicitis is, may cause diagnostic hesitations, if it is masked by a simultaneous alimentary infection. In spite of the application of a broad scope of examination methods a final decision of indication for laparotomy depends on clinical findings of the examining surgeon.