TY - JOUR
T1 - Can COVID 19 present like appendicitis?
AU - Abdalhadi, Ahmed
AU - Alkhatib, Mohammed
AU - Mismar, Ahmad Y.
AU - Awouda, Waleed
AU - Albarqouni, Loai
N1 - © 2020 The Author(s).
PY - 2020/6/2
Y1 - 2020/6/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00860
DO - 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00860
M3 - Article
C2 - 32523872
AN - SCOPUS:85085949265
SN - 2214-2509
VL - 21
JO - IDCases
JF - IDCases
M1 - e00860
ER -