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Intussusception and acute appendicitis are part of a differential diagnosis for acute abdominal pain and vomiting in the pediatric population. We describe a unique case combining appendiceal intussusception with concurrent acute appendicitis, or "appendi-sception." A 1-year-old boy presented with 1 day of fussiness, vomiting, and red, gelatinous stool. Initial diagnosis on ultrasound was a routine ileocolic intussusception with nonvisualization of the appendix. However, after a failed air enema decompression, the patient was taken to the operating room where the appendix was discovered to be inflamed within the intussusceptum...

INTRODUCTION: Mucocoele of the appendix is rarely encountered but consultant general surgical and trainees must be aware of it as a differential diagnosis, due to the nuances associated with its management. We aimed to provide a comprehensive review of the current literature concerning this rare surgical pathology. METHODS: Search terms "appendi*", "tumour", "malignancy", "mucino*" and "cystadenoma" were used in combination to identify papers from PubMed. Abstracts and full text were manually reviewed to identify suitable papers...

Repair of long uretheral defects with the appendix (appendi-couretheroplasty--AUP) was made in 5 patients. Stenosis of the lumbar urether was caused by a gunshot wound in one patient. Uretheral strictures developed after iatrogenic injury during extended gynecological operations in 3 women. The strictures arose after radiotherapy in one female. The man has undergone plastic reconstruction of the upper third of the right ureter, while women - replacement of the pelvic urether, including one case on the left...

Associated with pregnancy skin changes appear at approximately 90% pregnant. For the necessity of proper and complex care of the pregnant woman. The actualization of this knowledge among the family doctors and the obstetricians is crucial. The ability of precise diagnosis of physiological skin changes allows specifying the suspected cases of pathologic etiology and referring them to the dermatological referral centers for in-depth diagnosis and eventual treatment. The physiologic changes of skin appendies were discussed in the presented paper, vascular alterations color, as well as the generative alterations and the changes in the skin...