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Clinical features of acute appendicitis in infants

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Infants with acute appendicitis have a particularly high mortality rate from acute appendicitis that is partly attributable to their non-specific presentation and hence an increased amount of time for perforation to occur:

  • abdominal pain not always present
  • irritability
  • marked pyrexia
  • tachycardia
  • vomiting
  • local abdominal tenderness
  • diarrhoea

Such symptoms and signs may be attributed to concomitant and possibly pathogenetic gastroenteritis, respiratory infections of exanthemata.


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