A Urine Test For Appendicitis?

Appendicitis is the most common childhood surgical emergency, but the diagnosis can be challenging, especially in children, often leading to either unnecessary surgery in children without appendicitis, or a ruptured appendix and serious complications when the condition is missed. Now, emergency medicine physicians and scientists at the Proteomics Center at Children’s Hospital Boston demonstrate that a protein detectable in urine might serve as a “biomarker” for appendicitis.

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Filed under: Pediatrics on June 25th, 2009