A "fruitful" cause of acute appendicitis.

Mona Mlika, Imen Ben Ismail, Ayoub Zoghlami

Open access · greenAbstract readCase Reports

In one paragraph

Article in La Tunisie medicale, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

0citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact, top 61% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mona MlikaDepartment of Pathology-Trauma and Major Burn Center. Ben Arous. Tunis, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis-University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis- Tunisia.

Imen Ben IsmailDepartment of Surgery, Trauma and Major Burn Center Ben Arous - Tunis/Faculty of Medicine of Tunis-University of Tunis El Manar ,Tunis Tunisia.

Ayoub ZoghlamiDepartment of Surgery, Trauma and Major Burn Center Ben Arous - Tunis/Faculty of Medicine of Tunis-University of Tunis El Manar ,Tunis Tunisia.

Tunis University · TN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionAcute appendicitis is a common health problem mainly due to a lumen obstruction. The obstruction is mainly due to fecal material, lymphoid hyperplasia or parasites. Foreign bodies and especially seeds have been rarely reported as causes of acute appendicitis and account for less than 1% of the different causes. CASE REPORT: The authors described a rare case of acute appendicitis caused by seed and causing diagnostic challenge with the most frequent parasites observed in the appendix lumen. Different arguments were gathered to rule out enterobius vermicularis, taenia species, ascaris infection or schistosomiasis.

conclusionSeed-caused-appendicitis has to be known and identified by pathologists in order to avoid the diagnosis of parasites infection which may induce an overuse of antibiotics after the appendectomy.

Indexed as

AppendicitisAppendixEnterobiasisAcute DiseaseAppendectomyHumansRetrospective Studies

Identifiers

PMID38372548

PMCPMC11217960

OpenAlexW4394739713

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

LicenceCC BY-NC-ND

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.