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Metastatic Gastric Carcinoma Presenting as Acute Appendicitis

Saad Siddiqui1, Muhammad Yaseen1, Kashif Sajjad2

  • 1Radiology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital & Research Centre, Peshawar, PAK.

Cureus
|May 14, 2020
PubMed
Summary

Metastatic disease can rarely mimic acute appendicitis. This case highlights metastatic adenocarcinoma to the appendix in a patient with gastric cancer, emphasizing the need for awareness in diagnosing acute abdomen.

Keywords:
acute abdomenacute appendicitiscomputed tomographymetastasis

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