Acute appendicitis from gunshot trauma

Julien M. Goodman, M.D.
Julien M. Goodman
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Nelsonville, Ohio, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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1. The difficulty of establishing a causal relationship between trauma and acute appendicitis is discussed and the pertinent literature is briefly reviewed.
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2. A case of early acute appendicitis resulting from indirect trauma (gunshot wound injuring the cecum but not the appendix) is presented.

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