[Acute abdominal symptomatology and minor Salmonella infections]

The author points out how salmonellosis called "minor" during childhood may simulate an "acute abdomen" creating differential diagnostical surgical problems. On a casuisty of 1450 pediatrics cases, he has noted this circumstance ten times (1,45%) and six of these subjects have had to be urgently operated of appendicitis at the moment of their admission to the hospital. Only one of them presented a phlegmonens appendix. Instead, as complication of this sickness, during its lapse, two cases of intestinal occlusion have occurred, in two children, one of which showed numerous ulcers of typhou type of the small intestine. He concludes that frequent coprocoltures in all clinical cases of pediatric abdominal pathology are important.