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2655006

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-6-14
pubmed:abstractText
Five children with complicated appendiceal inflammatory disease are reported. They presented with nonspecific signs and symptoms, but three had liver abscess and two had inflammation of the portal vein. The inflamed portal vein may act as a conduit to the liver for bacteria, or it may become thrombosed and cause portal hypertension and hypersplenism. In one child, symptomatic portal hypertension developed 10 years after the initial disease. In children, an ultrasonic finding of a focal liver mass of low-to-mixed echogenicity or the presence of low-attenuation areas on computed tomographic scans should suggest the possibility of a hepatic abscess, and the radiologist has a major role in suggesting complicated inflammatory disease of the appendix as the cause. Similarly, when portal vein thrombosis or portal hypertension are found, the radiologist should consider complicated inflammatory disease of the appendix as the cause.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0033-8419
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
171
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
823-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Complicated appendiceal inflammatory disease in children: pylephlebitis and liver abscess.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit 48201.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article