Author(s)

Vinícius Moreira Paladino¹, Thiago Sande Miguel¹, Bruna Sande Miguel², Marcia Machado Galvão Pereira¹, Fernando Antonio Galvão Pereira Junior¹, Carolina Galvão Teixeira³, Caroline Guida Babinski¹, Naryrton Kalys Cruz dos Anjos¹, Daniel Almeida da Costa¹, Débora Trindade Martins¹, Bruno Fonseca dos Santos¹

¹The Medical School at the Center of Higher Education of Valença, Valença, Brazil.
²Unigranrio Medical School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³Suprema medical School, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.

Mesenteric adenitis consists of an important differential diagnosis of potentially serious diseases such as acute appendicitis, since they manifest themselves with a similar clinical picture. Case report: A 17-year-old male patient presented with periumbilical abdominal pain for 2 days, of abrupt onset and moderate intensity, who gave away with a common analgesic, which progressed to the right iliac fossa (RIF) and increased of intensity. He also reported liquid diarrhea, with several episodes a day, without mucus and/or blood, 38°C fever, anorexia and vomiting. He was hospitalized for investigating a possible diagnostic of Acute Appendicitis. In the exams, it was considered mesenteric adenitis, and antibiotic therapy was prescribed. The patient had complete improvement at the end of treatment. Conclusions: Given its importance as a differential diagnosis of numerous pathologies, as well as controversial before the therapeutic and diagnostic conduct, it is essential to report these cases in order to elucidate the specificities of this disease.

Mesenteric Adenitis, Appendicitis, Case Report

Paladino, V. , Miguel, T. , Miguel, B. , Pereira, M. , Junior, F. , Teixeira, C. , Babinski, C. , dos Anjos, N. , da Costa, D. , Martins, D. and dos Santos, B. (2018) Mesenteric Adenitis as a Differential Appendicitis Diagnosis: Case Report. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 6, 26-30. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2018.63003.