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Images in emergency medicine
Typhlitis with clinical presentation mimicking appendicitis
  1. Richard Kuo,
  2. Chin-Yin Sheu,
  3. Fei-Shih Yang
  1. Department of Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Chin-Yin Sheu
 Department of Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, 92, Section 2, Chungshan North Road, Taipei, Taiwan; kuorichardkuo{at}yahoo.com.tw

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2006.041608

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