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Shray Malik1,2, Joy E Harris1,2, Ranveer Vasdev1,2
1Surgery Integrated Care Community, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, USA.
Abstract:
Perforated appendicitis is a rare but serious clinical scenario typically requiring urgent surgical intervention. Herein, we discuss the case of a 62-year-old woman with COVID-19 and ruptured retrocecal appendicitis presenting as a right lower extremity soft tissue infection that was successfully managed using non-operative measures. This unique case illustrates the feasibility of conservative care - rather than urgent surgical intervention - in the treatment of an atypical presentation of complicated appendicitis in a high-risk patient.
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