Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mesenteric adenitis
- mimics acute appendicitis
- usually the result of an intercurrent viral infection
- typical presentation
- fever
- malaise
- central abdominal pain
- diagnosis
- definitive only if
- at laparotomy or laparoscopy
- large mesenteric nodes are seen
- appendix is normal
- period of observation usually necessary
- w/ MeA sx remain
static or improve
(cw appendicitis)
- accounts for the majority of children
who undergo normal appendicectomy
- after surgery post-op course is uneventful