You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Archivist
Appendicitis and family history

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.86.2.118

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Previous studies have shown that the family members of children with acute appendicitis are more likely than others to have themselves had acute appendicitis. A study in South Carolina (Michael WL Gauderer and colleagues.

    Journal of Pediatric Surgery2001; 36:1214–7

    ) has confirmed this family susceptibility and provided …

    View Full Text