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To identify the clinical causes, mortality, and morbidity of primary cecal pathologies presenting as acute abdomen and evaluate the emergency management options.

January 1, 2018International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury ScienceOpen Access

Primary cecal pathologies presenting as acute abdomen and critical appraisal of their current management strategies in emergency settings with review of literature

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To identify the clinical causes, mortality, and morbidity of primary cecal pathologies presenting as acute abdomen and evaluate the emergency management options.
Retrospective review of prospectively collected data over a 10-year period.
Included adult patients (N = 43) presenting with acute abdomen primarily caused by cecal pathology.
Cecal perforation secondary to amebic colitis with concurrent liver abscess was the most frequent etiology, followed by volvulus, diverticulitis, and idiopathic typhlitis.
The overall mortality rate was approximately 42%, with diagnostic delays often stemming from misdiagnosis as appendicular disease.
Conservative colonic resection with proximal diversion demonstrated a lower mortality rate (≈36%) compared to emergency hemicolectomy (67%).

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Retrospective study reports high mortality from primary cecal pathologies in acute abdomen patients, indicating conservative resection with proximal diversion improves emergency survival.

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Kaushal-Deep et al. (2018) studied this question.

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Retrospective study reports high mortality from primary cecal pathologies in acute abdomen patients, indicating conservative resection with proximal diversion improves emergency survival.

Primary cecal pathologies presenting as acute abdomen and critical appraisal of their current management strategies in emergency settings with review of literature

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Primary cecal pathologies presenting as acute abdomen and critical appraisal of their current management strategies in emergency settings with review of literature

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