COMBINATION OF ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS AND ACUTE APPENDICITIS COMPLICATED BY RETROPERITONEAL PHLEGMON

Abstract

The paper provides a medical practice case: acute cholecystitis associated with acute appendicitis in women at the age of 63. Initially there was a need to remove the inflamed gallbladder; acute appendicitis was diagnosed later, and in the course of the surgery the doctors found the inflamed appendix and retroperitoneal phlegmon. Notwithstanding the appendectomy, drainage and intensive care, it was indispensable to operate on the patient for the phlegmon for the second time. The recovered woman was discharged from the hospital.