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Report on Twenty-One Cases and Review of Four Hundred Forty-Seven Cases from the Literature

WILLIAM H. SNYDER, Jr., M.D.; LAWRENCE CHAFFIN, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1952;64(5):549-560.

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APPENDICITIS in the age group from birth to 2 years is of special interest for the following reasons: (1) It is not the most frequent cause of an acute condition in the abdomen as it is in older children and adults; (2) it has been reported 447 times in the literature; (3) it masquerades as gastrointestinal upsets and upper respiratory infections until 71% of the cases have perforated, and (4) there is now available a program of management that, despite late diagnosis, will almost achieve Charles McBurney's cherished goal of saving "all of them."

Attention was focused on appendicitis in infancy by Griffith¹ at the turn of the century, and again in 1917 by Abt,² who at that time found but 80 reported cases. At present (1951) 367 additional cases have been reviewed in the literature³ (Tables 1, 2, and 3). The information thus accumulated is supplemented . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LOS ANGELES

From the Department of Surgery, University of Southern California Medical School, and the Childrens Hospital.

Footnotes
Read at the Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 29, 1951.

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