(1) In addition, fibrin thrombi were noted in a wide variety of specific and nonspecific inflammatory bowel diseases and in acute appendicitis.
(2) An analysis of 280 clinical observations of acute appendicitis complicated by local noncircumscribed peritonitis was performed.
(3) From August 1986 to July 1987, 62 patients with clinical signs of acute appendicitis received US examinations after initial clinical evaluations.
(4) Between 1984 and 1989, 492 patients with suspected appendicitis were examined.
(5) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(6) The aims of this study were to determine whether there are any features of appendicitis in pregnant women that would help to establish the diagnosis and whether any difference exists between the presentation of appendicitis in pregnant and nonpregnant women.
(7) The greatest problems appeared in diagnosing thrombosis of mesenterial vessels and acute appendicitis in cases with the retrocecal disposition of the vermiform process.
(8) The results of prophylactic administration of Klion in phlegmonous appendicitis were excellent.
(9) Of the 174 patients without acute appendicitis, 93 patients (53%) were ultimately discharged with a diagnosis of abdominal pain of unknown origin.
(10) We performed a randomized controlled trial to compare results of laparoscopic and open appendectomy in patients with signs and symptoms suggesting acute appendicitis who were seen by one surgical team.
(11) All patients with partial filling of the appendix had appendicitis.
(12) In 618 cases (= 58.3%) acute appendicitis was diagnosed histologically.
(13) Because of the age of the patient, the clinical examination and the usual biology we diagnose an acute appendicitis.
(14) It showed no abnormality in 26 cases; ovarian cysts and acute appendicitis were the commonest pathological findings.
(15) The molybdenum cofactor in a number of E. coli enzymes has been shown to contain GMP in addition to the metal-molybdopterin complex, with the GMP appended in pyrophosphate linkage to the terminal phosphate ester on the molybdopterin side chain.
(16) Clinically, the symptoms invariably mimicked acute appendicitis.
(17) Children in the upper two quartiles of fiber intake were estimated to have a 30 per cent lower risk of appendicitis than children in the lowest quartile.
(18) We have observed it in acute cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, acute appendicitis, a perforated duodenal ulcer, a leaking anastomosis with a right subphrenic abscess following total gastrectomy and in a patient with septicaemia and liver abscesses.
(19) Only those patients with an uncertain diagnosis of acute appendicitis were included in the study.
(20) A list of the 104 most recommended books is appended.
Appendix
Definition:
(n.) Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.
(n.) Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Life events were collected (using the Bedford College method) in 78 women patients aged 15-40 yr, of whom 39 were admitted for the removal of an appendix which proved to be normal at operation and in whom no organic cause for their pain was found, and a matched group of 39 parasuicide patients.
(2) The age distribution for Caulobacter cells in an exponential population has been calculated (Appendix by Robert Tax) and used to analyze some of the results.
(3) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(4) Pathologic examination revealed no endometriosis, but examination of the distal appendix showed structural disorganization of its entire wall, with lack of proper differentiation of its normal coats and irregular overgrowth of fibroadipose, fibromuscular, and neural elements.
(5) The appendix or appendix stump was visualised on 53% of the barium examinations.
(6) This study reports eight patients who underwent appendicectomy between 1978 and 1986 for apparently isolated, previously undiagnosed Crohn's disease of the appendix.
(7) The appendix of the laryngeal ventricle courses superiorly between the laryngeal vestibule and the thyroid cartilage which differentiates this normal structure from ulcerations and fistulous tracts of laryngeal tumors.
(8) We report on a 47-year-old man with a granular cell tumour of the appendix, discovered incidentally during surgery for a rectal adenocarcinoma that had been irradiated preoperatively.
(9) A mathematical model for Mab binding and inactivation of nuclease, taking into account multiple binding events for one or two Mabs interacting with nuclease, was used to derive affinities and maximum reductions of the enzymatic rate (details on the derivation of the equations and on the hypotheses of the model are given in an appendix).
(10) All patients with partial filling of the appendix had appendicitis.
(11) In another patient, the diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa was established after a retrospective identification of one additional site of arteritis in the appendix removed 5 years prior to cholecystectomy.
(12) The relationships between thermodynamic quantities in a quaternary system of electrolytes are discussed in Appendix 2.
(13) All T1's were determined within 30-60 min of removal of the appendix at operation.
(14) It corresponds well with the working of the normal human appendix as regards tissue type and characteristics.
(15) Two of the six cases showed pseudoinvasion of the appendix and in a further case the appendix had perforated with extrusion of a misplaced neoplasm.
(16) The arterial blood supply, position, and length of the appendix were studied 103 Zambian cadavers.
(17) Pertinent data regarding the fate and transport of PCNB in air could not be located in the available literature as cited in the Appendix.
(18) The final pathologic report was a cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix.
(19) Thus it is important to distinguish between cystic neoplasms (cystadenomas) and non-neoplastic retention cysts of the appendix.
(20) A subpopulation of appendix sIg-negative, RTLA-negative cells has a relatively high concentration of RT2.