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So generally in acute appendicitis,

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the treatment is to go to surgery.

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However, sometimes it can present with

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complications, so it's always important

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for the radiologist to look for this

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and to note it in their reports.

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In this case, as we're following the colon

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down, there's a little bit of motion, as you

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can see here, and right where that appendix

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should be, you can see it coming off.

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The cecum right around here into this

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thickening and inflammatory process right here.

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But now we see a process here with sort of ill-

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defined walls and a few locules of free air.

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It's a developing collection.

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or inflammatory mass.

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At this point, it's not an abscess.

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It doesn't have drain or it

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doesn't have thickened walls.

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It's just kind of this phlegmon,

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inflammatory type mass.

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If you put Hounsfield units on it, they

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should be greater than 20 at this point.

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It's not yet a formed fluid collection.

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Thanks again.