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A rare complication of appendicitis: appendiculorenal sinus with renal cellulitis.

Mammen A, Ponnambathayil S, Varma KK, Kumar EK

Department of Paediatric Surgery, Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences, Govindapuram, Calicut, Kerala, 673016, India. abraham_mammen@hotmail.com

This report describes a rare complication of appendicitis, renal cellulitis, which led to a diagnostic dilemma in a 2-year-old girl who presented with fever of long duration.

Published 16 September 2005 in Pediatr Surg Int, 21(7): 582-4.
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