Fulminant Clostridium septicum infection mimicking appendicitis in a healthy child.
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.
Chang
Yi-Jung
YJ
Division of Paediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Paediatics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tauyuan, Taiwan.
Wu
Chang-Teng
CT
Chiu
Cheng-Hsun
CH
Hsia
Shao-Hsuan
SH
Huang
Chen-Sheng
CS
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