Abstract:SUMMARYIn an 18 years (1969)(1970)(1971)(1972)(1973)(1974)(1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986) period form a total of 22,141 hospitalizations, in the Pediatrics Department of Cayetano Heredia Hospital in Lima we found 17 cases of primary peritonitis (PP) (incidence 0.76/thousand) which represents 4.75% of the total cases of peritonitis general. The 17 PP cases (16 patients) were 10 girls and 6 boys; the mean age was 6.3 years (range 10 months to 12.9 years ) and average time… Show more
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