[Infectious diseases in children complicated by appendicitis].

The authors draw attention to the pitfalls in the diagnosis and treatment of children who develop abdominal pain in the course of an infection. Based on many years experience with the nursing and treatment of children at the Isolation Clinics of the Faculty Hospital and Policlinic Na Bulovce, rPague the authors evaluated a group of children (1982-1987) treated most frequently on account of parotitis, varicella, diarrhoeal disease and meningitis who developed concurrently symptoms of true or false acute abdomen. The authors analyze the most frequent diagnostic and therapeutic errors which cause deterioration of the course and prognosis of surgical acute abdomen in children whose health status is adversely influenced by the infectious disease.