A plan for strengthening pediatric emergency care: establishment of pediatric certified emergency center
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Pediatric Emergency Care
When an emergency medicine physician evaluates a child with abdominal pain and a history of appendectomy, appendicitis is often excluded from the differential. We present a case of a 16 year-old boy who developed stump appendicitis 3 years after laparoscopic appendectomy. Knowledge of this rare phenomenon in children can lead to timely diagnosis and avoid the significant additional morbidity as...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2383-4897,2508-5506
DOI: 10.22470/pemj.2017.00185