Unexpected histopathology of acute appendicitis

Unexpected histopathology of acute appendicitis

INTRODUCTION Appendicular diverticula and associated diverticulitis is a rare disease. Patients present commonly with symptoms of acute appendicitis and require laparoscopic or open surgery. Diagnosis is usually made only on histology. Here, we present a rare case of acute diverticulitis of the appendix. CASE PRESENTATION A 33-year old gentleman presented with right iliac fossa pain of 3 days...

Clinical Case an Unexpected Complication of Appendicitis

Appendicitis is quite a common pathology and is usually followed by a simple surgical procedure. This was not the case for a 24-year-old patient that initially presented with abdominal pain and diarrhea. The diagnosis of appendicitis was not apparent at first and after a few days of bed rest with malaise and fever, he starts having shortness of breath. The next examination deems his symptoms as...

accuracy of surgeon’s intraoperation diagnosis of acute appendicitis, compared with the histopathology results

o b jective: to evaluate the accuracy of surgeons’ intraoperative diagnosis in open appendectomy and compare it with the histopathology examination results afterwards. m ethods: this was a cross-sectional retrospective study accomplished in namazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences, in a one-year period from 2007 to 2008. medical charts of all the patients who were ...

ACUTE APPENDICITIS DUE TO METASTASIS OF PROSTATIC CARCINOMA

A 70 year old male presented with right lower quadrant pain and anorexia for about 72 hours prior to hospital admission. He underwent laparotomy with impression of acute appendicitis. The operative finding was an inflamed tumoral appendix without appendicular base involvement, and appendectomy was done. The patient had an uneventful post-op course. Due to the pathology report of prostatic ...

Acute Appendicitis