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Bowel infection and acute appendicitis.
This paper seeks to correct the widely held belief that a clinical or bacteriological diagnosis of infective diarrhoea excludes the presence or development of acute appendicitis. The work that is described was stimulated by isolated incidents that occurred between 1950-1955: these are summarized in Table 1. In that period nine children had appendicectomies either when a bowel infection was pres...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1961
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.36.188.394