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Global Health: Falciparum malaria masquerading as appendicitis

Posted on January 25, 2012 by BMJ

Malaria is responsible for over a million deaths worldwide every year. Here a 9 year old boy presents in India with acute abdominal pain and fever…the list of differential diagnoses for an acute abdomen has to include malaria…

Seema Biswas
Editor-in-Chief

Falciparum malaria masquerading as appendicitis

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