DUAL PATHOLOGY OF ACUTE PANCREATITIS AND ACUTE APPENDICITIS IN A PATIENT PRESENTING WITH ACUTE ABDOMEN

Maj (dr) Yogesh Kukreja, Maj (dr) Ss Choudhary, Maj (dr) Rajat Chawla, Capt (dr) Shreya Srivastava

Abstract


Presence of appendicitis and pancreatitis in a patient is very rare and whether it is  complication of pancreatitis resulting in appendicitis or two separate pathologies, is not known. There is a requirement to study the association between the two. Even the management of the same is not clear. We present a case of acute abdomen which was diagnosed to have both appendicitis and pancreatitis.


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