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Can COVID 19 present like appendicitis?

Authors :
Ahmed Abdalhadi
Mohammed Alkhatib
Ahmad Y. Mismar
Waleed Awouda
Loai Albarqouni
Source :
IDCases, Vol 21, Iss , Pp e00860- (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Elsevier, 2020.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease -19 is a novel pandemic contagious respiratory infection that frequently presents with fever and dry cough. However, it can present with other rare symptoms. As this disease is a new disease, the full picture of the disease presentation is not yet clear, and it might present with symptoms and signs of other common diseases. Here, we report a 40 year old female who presented with acute onset nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and vague abdominal pain as a clinical picture of appendicitis, but her CT abdomen image showed normal appendix, bilateral patchy peripheral lung basal consolidation, and ground-glass attenuation, so she was tested for coronavirus disease-19, which was positive.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
22142509
Volume :
21
Issue :
e00860-
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
IDCases
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.45ad3b307ed44eb1ae9e9852f84d54a8
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00860