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Can COVID 19 present like appendicitis?

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submitted on 2023-10-11, 11:28 and posted on 2023-10-11, 11:59 authored by Ahmed Abdalhadi, Mohammed Alkhatib, Ahmad Y. Mismar, Waleed Awouda, Loai Albarqouni
<p dir="ltr">Coronavirus disease -19 is a novel pandemic contagious respiratory infection that frequently presents with fever and dry cough. However, it can present with other rare symptoms. As this disease is a new disease, the full picture of the disease presentation is not yet clear, and it might present with symptoms and signs of other common diseases. Here, we report a 40 year old female who presented with acute onset nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and vague abdominal pain as a clinical picture of appendicitis, but her CT abdomen image showed normal appendix, bilateral patchy peripheral lung basal consolidation, and ground-glass attenuation, so she was tested for coronavirus disease-19, which was positive.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IDCases<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00860" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00860</a></p>

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  • 2020

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