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. 1989 Nov;42(11):1169–1172. doi: 10.1136/jcp.42.11.1169

Pathology of tropical appendicitis.

S C Gupta 1, A K Gupta 1, N K Keswani 1, P A Singh 1, A K Tripathi 1, V Krishna 1
PMCID: PMC501976  PMID: 2584431

Abstract

Over the past 25 years, 2921 appendicectomies were performed at this hospital. All were subjected to routine histopathological examination. In 95% of cases, histopathological examination did not add any further information but in 153 (5%) cases, clinically important pathological findings were detected for the first time. Seventy (2.3%) specimens showed typical evidence of tuberculosis. Parasitic infestation was detected in 75 (2.5%), including enterobiasis (1.4%), amoebiasis (0.5%), ascariasis (0.5%), ascariasis with trichuriasis (0.05%), and taeniasis (0.05%). Other lesions found were mucocele (0.1%) and carcinoid tumour (0.1%). It is concluded that routine histopathological examination of all appendicectomy specimens should be performed to avoid missing any clinically important and treatable condition.

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