What's the difference between appendicitis and phlegmon?

Appendicitis


Definition:

  • (n.) Inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, fibrin thrombi were noted in a wide variety of specific and nonspecific inflammatory bowel diseases and in acute appendicitis.
  • (2) An analysis of 280 clinical observations of acute appendicitis complicated by local noncircumscribed peritonitis was performed.
  • (3) From August 1986 to July 1987, 62 patients with clinical signs of acute appendicitis received US examinations after initial clinical evaluations.
  • (4) Between 1984 and 1989, 492 patients with suspected appendicitis were examined.
  • (5) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
  • (6) The aims of this study were to determine whether there are any features of appendicitis in pregnant women that would help to establish the diagnosis and whether any difference exists between the presentation of appendicitis in pregnant and nonpregnant women.
  • (7) The greatest problems appeared in diagnosing thrombosis of mesenterial vessels and acute appendicitis in cases with the retrocecal disposition of the vermiform process.
  • (8) The results of prophylactic administration of Klion in phlegmonous appendicitis were excellent.
  • (9) Of the 174 patients without acute appendicitis, 93 patients (53%) were ultimately discharged with a diagnosis of abdominal pain of unknown origin.
  • (10) We performed a randomized controlled trial to compare results of laparoscopic and open appendectomy in patients with signs and symptoms suggesting acute appendicitis who were seen by one surgical team.
  • (11) All patients with partial filling of the appendix had appendicitis.
  • (12) In 618 cases (= 58.3%) acute appendicitis was diagnosed histologically.
  • (13) Because of the age of the patient, the clinical examination and the usual biology we diagnose an acute appendicitis.
  • (14) It showed no abnormality in 26 cases; ovarian cysts and acute appendicitis were the commonest pathological findings.
  • (15) The molybdenum cofactor in a number of E. coli enzymes has been shown to contain GMP in addition to the metal-molybdopterin complex, with the GMP appended in pyrophosphate linkage to the terminal phosphate ester on the molybdopterin side chain.
  • (16) Clinically, the symptoms invariably mimicked acute appendicitis.
  • (17) Children in the upper two quartiles of fiber intake were estimated to have a 30 per cent lower risk of appendicitis than children in the lowest quartile.
  • (18) We have observed it in acute cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, acute appendicitis, a perforated duodenal ulcer, a leaking anastomosis with a right subphrenic abscess following total gastrectomy and in a patient with septicaemia and liver abscesses.
  • (19) Only those patients with an uncertain diagnosis of acute appendicitis were included in the study.
  • (20) A list of the 104 most recommended books is appended.

Phlegmon


Definition:

  • (n.) Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
  • (2) The term phlegmonous enterocolitis or gastritis defines an acute inflammatory process with purulent or nonpurulent character, that selectively damages the gastric, small and large intestines submucosal layer.
  • (3) In one patient the organism was repeatedly isolated from a phlegmone developing in the depth of a varicose leg ulcer.
  • (4) The results of prophylactic administration of Klion in phlegmonous appendicitis were excellent.
  • (5) In the treatment of 31 cases of acute infections of pediatric field including upper and lower airway infections, empyema, whooping cough, acute urinary tract infections and phlegmon, CMNX was administered intravenously either as one shot injection as drip infusion.
  • (6) Two original operations are proposed: ablation of the great toe with a preliminary transection of the tendon of the long flexor and radical operation of the deep phlegmon of the foot with the dissection of plantar aponeurosis and short flexors of the toes.
  • (7) Serial CT should be done in patients demonstrating phlegmonous extrapancreatic spread.
  • (8) The histological work-up of the surgical specimen revealed an acute phlegmonous appendicitis, and also a welldeveloped cryptosporidiosis, which was confirmed by electron-microscopic examination.
  • (9) For its clinical importance it is to be emphasized that 23% of all sows showed symptoms of chronic mastitis (phlegmon, abscess, granuloma, fibrosis).
  • (10) A case of right pyelonephritis with hydronephrosis complicating relapsing acute pancreatitis and right pararenal phlegmon formation is presented.
  • (11) Comparison of 3 methods for the assessment of the severity of intoxication in patients with maxillofacial phlegmons, i.e.
  • (12) An appendicitis echo was obtained in 100% of phlegmonous and gangrenous appendicitis cases in which emergency surgery was indicated, but in only 32% of catarrhal appendicitis cases in which conservative therapy was generally indicated.
  • (13) The most frequent complications of amebic colitis are perforation and phlegmon, which result in peritonitis.
  • (14) Some indices of humoral and cellular immunity were studied in 98 patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), complicated with pyoseptic infection (phlegmon, abscess, gangrene of different sites, hematogenic osteomyelitis, furunculosis, sepsis).
  • (15) In most patients with phlegmonous cholecystitis specific antibodies accumulated in the blood during the disease irrespective of one another, while the intensity of their increase was determined by the duration of treatment and the patients' age.
  • (16) Eight cases of lateral ventral hernia, or the so-called hernia of the line of Spiegel, included 2 serious cases complicated by a pyostercoral phlegmon.
  • (17) Probable presence of phlegmonous appendicitis is small if 48 hours have passed after initiation of troubles.
  • (18) In the subsequent part they focus attention on possible differentiation of acute osteomyelitis from inflammations of soft tissues-phlegmons.
  • (19) Diagnosis of phlegmonous gastritis was made by laparotomy.
  • (20) The efficacy of treatment of 98 patients suffering from maxillofacial odontogenic phlegmons was assessed from the results of clinical, laboratory, immunologic, biophotometric, and morphologic investigations, and compared to the results of traditional treatment of 132 patients with the same conditions.

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