title: Fulminant Clostridium septicum infection mimicking appendicitis in a healthy child.
abstract: A 5-year-old boy with Clostridium septicum enterocolitis presented with severe right lower abdominal pain. On the day after admission, shock, neutropenia and pneumoperitoneum prompted a laparotomy. Gangrene of the ileum and colon was identified, associated with a fatal Clostridium septicum infection.
authors.affiliation: Division of Paediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Paediatics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tauyuan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yi-Jung
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Chang-Teng
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Cheng-Hsun
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: Shao-Hsuan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Hsia
authors.forename: Chen-Sheng
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D052557:Clostridium septicum; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004760:Enterocolitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005738:Gas Gangrene / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male