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Postoperative infectious complications in children following perforated appendicitis present in diverse ways. We present two unusual complications of appendectomy for perforated appendicitis: an acute scrotum after open and laparoscopic appendectomy. A␣retrospective review of two cases of scrotal abscess following appendectomy at our hospital as well as a MEDLINE search was performed to review the clinical presentation, etiology, type of treatment, and outcome of these patients. Although scrotal inflammation occurring postoperatively in a patient with perforated appendicitis may be due to an incarcerated hernia, it is much more likely to be due to a scrotal abscess. Patients without a patent processus vaginalis or inguinal hernia at initial presentation of peritonitis must be carefully followed in the postoperative period and explored early if testicular or scrotal pain becomes manifest.
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Accepted: 2 August 2000
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Thakur, A., Buchmiller, T., Hiyama, D. et al. Scrotal abscess following appendectomy. Pediatr Surg Int 17, 569–571 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003830000556
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