Case Report
Diagnostic Colonoscopy Leading to Perforated Appendicitis: A Case Report and Systematic Literature Review
Table 1
Presentation of main characteristics of cases described in the literature (ns: not specified).
| First author | Year | Sex | Age | Time after colonoscopy | Treatment | Condition |
| Houghton | 1988 | Male | 35 | 8 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Acute | Brandt | 1989 | Female | 65 | 48 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | ns | Segawa | 1992 | Male | 49 | 4 hours | ns | Perforated | Vender | 1995 | Female | 44 | Several hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | ns | Vender | 1995 | Female | 57 | Immediate | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Perforated | Vender | 1995 | Male | 55 | 48 hours | Antibiotics | ns | Hirata | 1996 | Male | 69 | 12 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Acute | Lipton | 1999 | Male | 69 | 96 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Gangrenous | de Leusse | 1999 | Male | 71 | 12 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Perforated | Takagi | 2000 | Male | 56 | 72 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Phlegmonous | Kapral | 2003 | Male | 79 | Same day | ns | Perforated | Srivastava | 2004 | Male | 65 | 10 days | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Abscess | Rosen | 2005 | Male | 24 | 48 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | ns | Rosen | 2005 | Male | 55 | Several hours | Antibiotics | ns | Izzedine | 2005 | Male | 61 | 1 day | Antibiotics-appendectomy | Perforated | Volchok | 2006 | Male | 60 | 16 hours | Appendectomy | Nonperforated | Chae | 2007 | Female | 48 | Same day | Appendectomy | Nonperforated | Horimatsu | 2007 | Male | 68 | 1 day | Antibiotics | ns | Pellish | 2007 | Male | 50 | Immediate | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Nonperforated | Johnston | 2008 | Male | 55 | 16 hours | Appendectomy | Perforated | Sheikh | 2010 | Female | 50 | 4 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Perforated | Moorman | 2010 | Female | 71 | Next morning | ns | Perforated | Moorman | 2010 | Male | 47 | 27 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Perforated | Moorman | 2010 | Male | 84 | 4 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Acute | Bachir | 2010 | Male | 28 | 2 days | Appendectomy | Nonperforated | Penkov | 2011 | Female | 50 | 7 days | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Acute | Rodriguez-Otero | 2011 | Female | 50 | 6 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Perforated | Aguilar-Shea | 2011 | Male | 34 | 12 hours | ns | Acute | Louleiro | 2011 | Male | 54 | 4 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Perforated | Yagnik | 2012 | Female | 35 | 7 days | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Acute | Musielac | 2012 | Female | 45 | 4 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Perforated | Musielac | 2012 | Male | 33 | 6 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Acute | Shaw | 2013 | Male | 67 | 24 hours | Appendectomy | Acute | April | 2013 | Male | 52 | 8 hours | Appendectomy | Nonperforated | Kuriyama | 2014 | Male | 83 | ns | ns | Acute | Wong | 2014 | Male | 47 | 13 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Perforated | Nemoto | 2015 | Female | 53 | 7 hours | Antibiotics | Acute | Paramythiotis | 2016 | Female | 60 | 24 hours | Laparotomy-appendectomy | Perforated |
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