Presentation
Abdominal pain
Patient Data
A thick-walled blind-ending vermiform structure arising from the cecum inferior to the ileocecal valve, measuring up to 13 mm in maximum diameter, no abscess or collection is seen, no free fluid.
There is regular circumferential cecal wall thickening is likely secondary to the inflamed appendix, also few enlarged non-suspicious mesenteric lymph nodes are seen.
Case Discussion
The patient present with abdominal pain for two days duration, the surgeon referred him for a CT scan as an ultrasound done in another hospital failed to make the diagnosis.
After CT, the patient went to surgery and acute non-complicated appendicitis was confirmed. They sent the specimen for histopathology and acute follicular appendicitis was confirmed.