title: Sewing needle appendicitis in a child.
abstract: A six-year-old boy presented with abdominal pain and vomiting five days after accidental ingestion of a sewing needle. The presence of the needle in the right iliac fossa on plain roentgenogram along with signs of appendicular inflammation on clinical and laboratory evaluation provided a clue to the diagnosis. Surgical exploration revealed inflamed appendix with the ingested needle in its lumen. The child recovered after appendectomy, and is well six months later.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neonatal and Pediatric Surgery, S M S Medical College, S P Mother and Child Health Institute, Jaipur, India. sinha_dd@yahoo.com
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.forename: Chetan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Vipul
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chaturvedi
mesh_terms: D001064:Appendicitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium; D008297:Male; D009339:Needles