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Duplication of the vermiform appendix

Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2000
In this brief report, the authors present a case of duplication of the vermiform appendix with appendicitis occurring in both appendices and causing small bowel obstruction.
Leif O. Holgersen, J.Roberto Borromeo, Yves A. Gabriel, David K.W. Chew   +3 more
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Agenesis of the Vermiform Appendix

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques, 2000
Agenesis of the vermiform appendix is very rare. The incidence is estimated to be one in 100,000 laparotomies for suspected appendicitis. Several criteria have to be met before the investigator can conclude that the appendix is congenitally absent.
Fabrice Chèvre, Henri Vuilleumier, Michel Gillet   +2 more
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Diverticulosis of the vermiform appendix

Medical Journal of Australia, 1986
A case of appendicitis that was associated with a rare congenital diverticulum of the appendix is presented, along with the results of a retrospective study of diverticulosis of the appendix over a 10-year period. The incidence of the condition in this series (0.65%) is similar to other published series; however, two cases involved rare congenital ...
Neil Wetzig, Neil Wetzig
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The vermiform appendix: an immunological organ sustaining a microbiome inoculum.

Clinical science, 2019
The hominoid vermiform appendix has been characterized as a diverticulum of the caecum and describes an entity at the juxtaposition of the colon in the confluence of tanias.
L. Vitetta, Jiezhong Chen, S. Clarke
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Adenocarcinoma of the vermiform appendix

Journal of Surgical Oncology, 1990
AbstractPrimary adenocarcinoma of the appendix is rare. Eleven patients with this rare neoplasm have been evaluated at our institution over a 50‐year period. We have reviewed the presentation and clinical course of these patients, and have compared them with those described in the literature.
Gary J. Harris, Gary J. Harris, Frank A. Mitros, Luis F. Urdaneta   +3 more
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Adenocarcinoma of the Vermiform Appendix

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1982
Primary carcinoma of the appendix, though rare, occurs often enough to warrant its inclusion in diagnostic possibilities when the symptoms of acute appendicitis, without leukocytosis, are present in geriatric patients. A case of mucinous adenocarcinoma of the appendix in an 88‐year‐old white woman is presented.
Charles B. Witt, Victor A. Herrmann
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Endometriosis of the vermiform appendix

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1960
Abstract 1.1. There is no clinical syndrome pathognomonic of endometriosis in the appendix. A presumptive diagnosis of this lesion may be entertained in selected cases of right lower quadrant pain in the sexually mature woman. 2.2. Acute or recurrent appendicitis was the preoperative diagnosis in 11 patients in this series.
Robert E. Lane, Robert E. Lane
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Adenocarcinoid of the vermiform appendix

Virchows Archiv A Pathological Anatomy and Histology, 1980
Four cases of adenocarcinoid of the appendix were studied. Two tumours were found among 28 cases primarily diagnosed as appendiceal carcinoids. They showed characteristic histological structures with features of both a conventional carcinoid tumour and a mucinproducing adenocarcinoma with goblet cells. All tumours were small and ill-defined; three were
Birgitta Olsson, Otto Ljungberg
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Adenocarcinoma of the vermiform appendix

The American Journal of Surgery, 1970
Abstract Tumors of the appendix occur in 1 to 2 per cent of all removed appendixes. Adenocarcinoma accounts for 3 per cent of these appendiceal tumors. It occurs most frequently in patients over fifty years of age and is more common in men. Acute appendicitis is the clinical picture most often seen, but sometimes the tumor presents as an appendiceal ...
Arnold T. Berman, Paul M. James
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Anatomical Positions of Vermiform Appendix in Bangladeshi People: A Postmortem Study

, 2019
The vermiform appendix is a worm-like, narrow, elongated, blind-ended extension of the large intestine of certain mammals, projecting from the posteromedial wall of the cecum, near its junction with the small intestine.
M. A. Rahman, Md. Ashraful Azim, Farhana Karim   +2 more
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