OBJECTIVE To report the prevalence of appendiceal disease in women with chronic pelvic pain undergoing laparoscopy for possible endometriosis, summarize the literature, and more accurately estimate the prevalence of endometriosis of the appendix. DESIGN Prospective case series and literature review. SETTING Academic research institute. PATIENT(S) One hundred thirty-three patients with chr...

Appendiceal orifice inflammation (AOI) is observed as skip lesion in distal ulcerative colitis (UC). The endoscopic frequency of AOI is reported to be 7.9% to 76% of distal colitis. UC is a relapsing and remitting disease and a morphological change of the large bowel occurs over time. Patient and physician can easily understand the shape of the whole large bowel not through endoscopic photograp...

PURPOSE Endometriosis is defined as functioning endometrial tissue outside of the uterus. Endometriosis of the appendix is uncommon. Its clinical presentation varies from asymptomatic to acute abdominal pain. The aims of this study were to describe our experience of managing patients with appendiceal endometriosis and to review the clinical characteristics of this medical condition. METHODS F...

Appendiceal diverticulosis is a rare entity. An inflamed appendix has a higher perforation rate if associated with diverticulitis. Barium enema and computed tomography are useful in demonstrating this lesion and its associated complications. This article describes the radiographic findings in a Chinese patient with appendiceal diverticulosis, together with a brief literature review.

The truth of the statement that the vermiform appendix is a totally intra-peritoneal structure appears to have been satisfactorily demonstrated. There are, however, numerous published statistics which appear to show that a portion of the appendix may be uncovered by peritoneum in a natural state of the parts. Fowler writes: "The completeness with which this [the peritoneum] covers the organ var...

This section presents a stylized discrete-choice model to derive predictions about the effects of a financial incentive program that rewards parents that have fewer children and more daughters. For simplicity, assume that (i) the program provides benefits only to parents that have one child, conditional on no second births, and (ii) the benefit received by parents of one girl ($G) is larger tha...

Appendectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures in the United States, usually performed on an emergency basis for signs and symptoms of acute appendicitis or incidentally during surgery for other conditions, with a minor subset of patients having a mass lesion of the appendix. Nevertheless, because the appendix is currently inaccessible by endoscopy, we have minimal information regar...

Although complicated acute appendicitis is occasionally observed in general practice, the diagnosis of appendiceal abscess by colonoscopy is unusual. We report a case of appendiceal abscess with spontaneous drainage into the lumen of colon diagnosed during colonoscopy and resolved by the time of surgery.

Appendiceal schistosomiasis is a rare disease of only histopathological diagnosis. Appendectomy should be followed by treatment with praziquantel to avoid complications. We report two cases of appendiceal schistosomiasis while discussing the place of this infection in the pathogenesis of appendicitis. Finally we recommend a routine pathological examination of any part of appendectomy for better...