%0 Journal Article
%T Post-colonoscopy appendicitis: a rare entity
%A Vipul D. Yagnik
%A Bhargav D. Yagnik
%J Clinics and Practice
%D 2012
%I PAGEPress Publications
%R 10.4081/cp.2012.e55
%X A 35-year-old woman was admitted to the surgical ward complaining of right-sided lower abdominal pain. She had undergone colonoscopy a week previously. She was diagnosed with acute appendicitis following colonoscopy and laparoscopic appendectomy was performed via the 2-port technique. Post colonoscopy appendicitis is very rare with 14 cases reported since 1988.
%K appendicitis
%K colonoscopy.
%U http://www.clinicsandpractice.org/index.php/cp/article/view/467