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Absence of the appendix discovered during childhood

Absence of the appendix is rare. Isolated cases are usually discovered in adult patients or cadavers. We report the case of a 14 year old boy who was found to have no appendix on laparotomy for assumed acute appendicitis and use this opportunity to highlight the growing surgical uses of this vestigi...

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Autores principales: Vincent, Michelle V, Doyle, Alex, Bernstein, Sean, Jackman, Selma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25279313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-522