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ArticleArchives of medical science : AMS2020

Acute mesenteric lymphadenitis in children: findings related to differential diagnosis and hospitalization.

Mustafa Yaşar Özdamar, Erdal Karavaş

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Article in Archives of medical science : AMS, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Mustafa Yaşar ÖzdamarDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Turkey.
Erdal KaravaşDepartment of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Turkey.
Erzincan University · TR

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Abstract

introductionDiagnostic discrimination between acute appendicitis (AA) and mesenteric lymphadenitis (AML) may require more diagnostic tests or great skill after excluding other diagnoses. This study aimed to make a differential diagnosis between AA and AML patients with previous and new parameters and to examine which parameters should be taken into account regarding whether the AML patient should be hospitalized or discharged. MATERIAL AND

methodsOne hundred and twenty-three AML and 134 AA patients, randomly selected, were included in the study. Demographic, clinical, and laboratory data of all subjects were analyzed. Ultrasonographic and rarely computed tomography examinations evaluating for the enlarged lymph nodes with the shortest diameter in the right lower quadrant of the AML patients were performed. Also, the erect abdominal radiographs (EAR) of AML and AA patients were evaluated.

resultsWhile there was no statistically significant difference in age or gender, C-reactive protein, white blood cell count, monocyte percentage as well as symptoms between the AA and AML groups (

conclusionsBased on the results with ROC curve analysis, we propose to take into account the L/M ratio and the EAR from the parameters in the differential diagnosis between AA and AML in addition to previously reported parameters. Also, we recommend that the same features may be used to decide whether AML patients under observation are hospitalized or not.

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acute appendicitischildrendifferential diagnosismesenteric lymphadenitis

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PMCPMC7069435
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