{"title":"Two cases of appendicitis in Kawasaki disease.","authors":"T Chiba","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two cases of appendicitis in Kawasaki disease (KD) are presented. Appendicitis in KD is very rare condition, and only a few cases have been previously reported. This report suggests the need to expand the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in this group of patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":19162,"journal":{"name":"Nihon geka hokan. Archiv fur japanische Chirurgie","volume":"67 3-4","pages":"69-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nihon geka hokan. Archiv fur japanische Chirurgie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Two cases of appendicitis in Kawasaki disease (KD) are presented. Appendicitis in KD is very rare condition, and only a few cases have been previously reported. This report suggests the need to expand the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in this group of patients.