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Perforated appendicitis in a septuagenarian
2011
Annals of African Medicine
Appendicitis in the elderly is becoming an increasingly frequent clinical encounter due to the increased life expectancy in the human race over the last half-century. Appendicitis in this age group has, therefore, become relatively more common with an atypical presentation that incurs delay in diagnosis with attendant morbidity and mortality. We present a septuagenarian who presented atypically with a rapidly progressing feature of appendicitis that emphasizes the need for early operative
doi:10.4103/1596-3519.84701
pmid:21912013
fatcat:w2tv4wo5kjhdro5tejv35ndnb4