Acute appendicitis in infancy and early childhood
| Autor: | G. L. Bunton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1953 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry General Engineering Infant General Medicine Articles medicine.disease Appendicitis Appendix medicine.anatomical_structure Child Preschool Acute appendicitis Acute Disease medicine General Earth and Planetary Sciences Humans Early childhood business Child General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | British medical journal. 2(4827) |
| ISSN: | 0007-1447 |
| Popis: | Bailey and Love (1949) begin their section on appendi citis with these words : " Over 3,000 persons die annually from acute appendicitis in England and Wales alone. Many of them are in youth or the prime of life. Practically aflP these lives could be saved if an early diagnosis were made, and, at this stage, the comparatively simple operation of appendicectomy carried out. The importance of the subject cannot be overstated." Recent years have seen an improvement in the saving of lives, though not necessarily in early diagnosis. In this paper are reviewed 115 consecutive unselected children whose appendices were removed. They were admitted to the wards of the Westminster Children's Hospital during 1950-2. Thirty-two suffered from "recurrent" appendicitis. The remainder had appen dices which were unequivocally demonstrated to be the seat of acute inflammation. All were under 12 years old. It is not proposed to deal in detail with those in the " recurrent " group or with those over 5, but to make special reference to the 28 cases under 5. It should be noted that in those cases which have been called " recur rent" there was evidence, either macroscopically or microscopically, of past inflammation in the appendix. Cases in which a normal appendix was removed, either through erroneous diagnosis or during the course of some other operative procedure, are not included. 20 |
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