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Case Reports
. 1989 May;59(5):425-6.
doi: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1989.tb01600.x.

Acute appendicitis presenting as a scrotal abscess

A G Read  1 , T C McQuillan
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Acute appendicitis presenting as a scrotal abscess

A G Read et al. Aust N Z J Surg. 1989 May.

Abstract

A 50 year old man presented with scrotal pain of 2 weeks' duration. The finding of acute appendicitis as a scrotal abscess due to perforated appendix in an inguinal hernia is rare, and literature on this finding is reviewed.

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