Congenital agenesis or absence of vermiform appendix is very rare. Herein, author reported a case of a 28 years old Vietnamese lady who presented with a picture of acute appendicitis. During surgery, author failed to find the appendix. Postoperatively, she made uneventful recovery and she was diagnosed as a case of nonspecific abdominal pain (NSAP) with appendicular agenesis.
The spleen is one of the most commonly injured organs in the body after blunt abdominal trauma. Our objective was to present a case of the rare entity called "delayed splenic rupture", which is the delayed manifestation of splenic injury following a trauma in which the initial ultrasonography study was normal. We also review the previous 13 cases up to 2015 and offer our recommendations. We present a case of a 60-year-old male with a history of road traffic accident 3.5 days prior to admission to our hospital with initial normal ultrasonography scan done at a peripheral referring hospital. He was evaluated and proved to have a large subcapsular splenic hematoma and significant hemoperitoneum. He was offered splenectomy.
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