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Pelvic inflammatory disease with periappendicitis in a pediatric patient.

Kurata S, Uchida M, Arakawa M, Abe T, Ishibashi M, Hayabuchi N

Department of Radiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-Machi, Kurume, 830-0011, Japan. skur@med.kurume-u.ac.jp

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is generally a disease of young, sexually active patients. However, there have been few reports of computed tomography (CT) and the histopathologic findings of periappendicitis with PID in children. We present a case of PID with periappendicitis in a 12-year-old girl. Her CT findings are described, and the histopathologic findings of periappendicitis are discussed.

Published 21 May 2007 in Radiat Med, 25(4): 178-80.
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