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SUBMITTER: Mahajan PS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4078456 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mahajan Parag Suresh PS Abdalla Mohammed Fahmy MF Purayil Nishan K NK
Journal of clinical imaging science 20140527
Perforation of a duodenal ulcer (DU) into the retroperitoneal space presenting with clinical features of acute appendicitis is known as Valentino's syndrome. Post duodenal perforation, the gastric and duodenal fluids tend to settle in the right paracolic gutter causing peritonitis and clinically mimicking acute appendicitis. Only three cases of Valentino's syndrome have been reported till date in the published literature and there is only one previous report of its preoperative imaging diagnosis ...[more]