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Retroperitoneal abscess from dropped appendicolith complicating laparoscopic appendectomy.

Lambo A, Nchimi A, Khamis J, Khuc T

Medical Imaging Department, CHC, Liège, Belgium.

Abscesses can occur after appendectomy. With the increasing use of laparoscopy, this risk has increased in the same way as the incidence of abscesses related to dropped gallstones increased after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. However, this occurrence has been rarely reported. We describe here the case of a young patient who developed retroperitoneal abscess one year after laparoscopic appendectomy.

Published 15 May 2007 in Eur J Pediatr Surg, 17(2): 139-41.
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