title: Recurrent abdominal pain due to buckshots in the appendix.
abstract: Ingestion of foreign bodies is a common paediatric problem, with more than 100,000 cases occurring each year. The majority of these objects are radiopaque. This paper reports a case of elective appendectomy in a patient with unknown ingestion of buckshots affected by recurrent abdominal pain. Plain abdominal films and ultrasound scans showed that the foreign bodies were located in the right lower abdominal quadrant, more specifically in the appendix.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Foreign bodies in the appendiceal lumen may cause inflammation, perforation and peritonitis. Surgery seems to be the only effective therapeutic approach to foreign bodies in the appendix.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Sciences, Pediatric Surgical Unit, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. dr.zampieri@libero.it
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zampieri
authors.forename: Veronica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zuin
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ottolenghi
authors.forename: Francesco Saverio
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Camoglio
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D001062:Appendectomy; D001065:Appendix; D002648:Child; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence