Right Lower Quadrant (RLQ) Pain: Beyond The Boundaries Of Appendicitis
Right Lower Quadrant(RLQ) Pain: Beyond the boundaries of appendicitis
Keywords:
Right lower quadrant pain, MDCT, appendicitis, ileo-cecal tuberculosisAbstract
Right lower quadrant abdominal pain (RLQP) is one of the commonest causes for surgical emergencies. Beyond appendicitis and ileocecal (IC) tuberculosis; right iliac fossa pain indicates a varied list of differential diagnoses thus posing a challenge to surgeons. Causes of RLQP other than appendicitis and IC tuberculosis include inflammatory and infectious conditions involving the ileocecal region; diverticulitis; malignancies; pelvic cystic pathologies in women and miscellaneous conditions affecting omentum and mesentery. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has seen a quantum leap since its introduction for bowel pathology and is now the modality of choice for evaluation of patients with right lower quadrant pain. MDCT is an extremely useful noninvasive method for diagnosis and management of not only the most common causes such as appendicitis, but also less common conditions.[Goel N NJIRM 2015; 6(5):125-133]
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ileocecal junction and 2 pericolonic lymph nodes; B, intranodal benign glandular inclusions. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2005; 129(12):e218–e221.
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46. Kiran Jain, Imaging of peritoneal inclusion cysts, American Journal of Roentgenology. 2000;174: 1559-1563.
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