Case report - Abstract

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Peter Hulme. Foreign body causing perforation of the appendix in an African boy.
The Pan African Medical Journal. 2010;5:5

Key words: Appendicitis, foreign body, Africa, paediatrics, perforation

Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/5/5/full

Received: 22/04/2010 - Accepted: 15/04/2010 - Published: 24/04/2010

© Peter Hulme et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Foreign body causing perforation of the appendix in an African boy

Peter Hulme^1,&

¹Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, England

^&Corresponding author

Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, Davyhulme, Manchester, England, M41 5SL.

Abstract

Foreign bodies in the appendix are a rare but well described clinical entity and may cause perforation. Presented here is the case of a 13yr old Ugandan boy who had features of acute appendicitis, was sent for appendicectomy and during the operation was found to have perforation of the appendix due to a seed. The boy was treated with broad spectrum antibiotics and made an uneventful recovery.

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