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Appendicitis-like syndrome owing to mesenteric adenitis caused by Salmonella typhi
Sasithorn Likitnukul1, Jurai Wongsawat, Pongpun Nunthapisud
1Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn Hospital, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. sasiq@hotmail.com
Annals of Tropical Paediatrics
|April 3, 2002
Abstract:
We report a 14-year-old girl who presented with signs of appendicitis and had her appendix removed. She subsequently proved to have mesenteric adenitis owing to Salmonella typhi which responded to treatment with ceftriaxone.