A 60-year-old female underwent an appendectomy for acute appendicitis with perforation. It appeared to be a straightforward case. There was not much contamination and it was localized. The pathology ...
Appendiceal carcinoma is an uncommon malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract with a prevalence ranging from 0.2 to 0.3% of appendectomy specimens (1, 2). Most appendiceal carcinomas arise from an ...
We retrieved database information on appendiceal mucinous neoplasms, which were resected at three affiliated hospitals to Seoul National University College of Medicine. In total, 70 cases were ...
The rarity of appendix cancer, accounting for less than 1 percent of tumors that originate in the gastrointestinal tract, and the lack of scientific data for this disease means that current treatment ...
Lesions of the appendix are being over diagnosed as invasive cancer, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers in a paper published June 7 in the journal PLOS ONE. The ...
A 35-year-old man presents to hospital. He has no notable history of illness -- 3 months previously, he had acute appendicitis, for which he had undergone laparoscopic appendectomy. Although the ...
The rarity of appendix cancer, accounting for less than 1 percent of tumors that originate in the gastrointestinal tract, and the lack of scientific data for this disease means that current treatment ...
Interval colorectal cancer despite screening colonoscopy: A single-center experience. Background: Though histological grade is known to have a major prognostic impact in metastatic mucinous ...