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Acute appendicitis during the clinical course of COVID‐19 in a 13‐year‐old boy: Complication or coincidental?
Author(s) -
Nurullayev Elnur,
Gördü Bilge,
Özsürekçi Yasemin,
Haliloglu Mithat,
Soyer Tutku
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
surgical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1744-1633
pISSN - 1744-1625
DOI - 10.1111/1744-1633.12526
Subject(s) - medicine , appendicitis , nausea , covid-19 , complication , abdominal pain , acute appendicitis , pediatrics , general surgery , surgery , pathology , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Gastrointestinal symptoms appear to be one of the most common presentations of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, later named COVID‐19. The symptoms such as nausea, emesis, abdominal pain, and diarrhoea may be recognised as either a finding of COVID‐19 or prominent presentation of multi‐inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS‐C). COVID‐19 may present with acute appendicitis and/or may mimic its clinical findings. Although, coexistence of acute appendicitis and COVID‐19 has been well documented, it is not clear whether appendicitis is a complication of COVID‐19 or coincidence in children. A 13‐year‐old boy who developed acute appendicitis during the clinical course of COVID‐19 is presented to discuss the possibility of causal relationship between appendicitis and COVID‐19 in children.