(1) Adenocarcinoid is a form of appendiceal carcinoid possessing features of both carcinoid and adenocarcinoma.
(2) Indications for operation must be strict, for unless there are specific signs and symptoms of appendiceal disease, appendectomy will often be of no benefit.
(3) Appendiceal adenocarcinoma, a rare lesion, is difficult to diagnose preoperatively.
(4) In summary, we report a case of secondary infertility attributed to pseudomyxoma peritonei caused by ruptured appendiceal mucocele.
(5) We have reported the case of a patient with AIDS who had appendiceal perforation and periappendiceal abscess.
(6) Two cases with this condition, including a unique example of appendiceal diverticulosis presenting at herniorrhaphy, are described.
(7) Based on these findings, the following strategy is recommended for management of appendiceal abscess.
(8) The anomalous appendix in this patient was not compatible with any of the previously described types of appendiceal duplications.
(9) Myxoglobulosis is a rare morphologic variant of appendiceal mucocele characterized by intraluminal mucinous globules of the appendix.
(10) A neonate is reported with the meconium cyst form of meconium peritonitis secondary to appendiceal perforation, which occurred prior to birth.
(11) Exploratory laparotomy revealed the mass to be appendiceal adenocarcinoma, which was treated with extirpation of all the visible tumor and repair of the anatomic defect.
(12) Histologic examination of the laparotomy specimen confirmed the presence of a well-differentiated mucinous cystadenocarcinoma, with an apparent appendiceal origin.
(13) We conclude that (1) gestational physiologic changes obscure the accurate diagnosis of acute appendicitis; (2) the natural history of acute appendicitis is not affected by trimester of presentation; and (3) adverse sequelae of acute appendicitis are obviated by prompt operative exploration and prevention of appendiceal perforation.
(14) Peptide YY cells were found in one of 13 gastric, one of 13 duodenal, one of one jejunal, zero of two ileal, three of 11 appendiceal, and 16 of 20 rectal carcinoids.
(15) An Israeli commentator said of the first of them: "when one looks through all the lofty phraseology, all the deliberate disinformation, the hundreds of pettifogging sections, sub-sections, appendices and protocols, one clearly recognises that the Israeli victory was absolute and Palestine defeat abject."
(16) Patients with perforated or gangrenous appendicitis required significantly less antimicrobial therapy than those with peritonitis due to non-appendiceal disease.
(17) Of appendices deemed normal by the surgeon 8.7% were histologically inflamed and of those deemed inflamed by the surgeon 3.5% were histologically normal.
(18) Chromogranin immunoreactivity in greater than 50% of tumor cells was present in 74% of islet cell tumors, 93% of ileojejunal carcinoids, and 83% of appendiceal carcinoids, but only in a minority of rectal carcinoids (36%).
(19) On the basis of reasonable assumptions and results with luminal test solutions of differing osmolarities, it was concluded that (a) the L(p) of the appendiceal epithelium is in the lower range of values reported for small bowel and colon; (b) the L(p) is higher for osmotic absorption than for osmotic secretion; and (c) the rate of spontaneous secretion is insensitive to luminal anisotonicity over a wide range of values.
(20) The basic features of Goldenhar syndrome are preauricular appendices, epibulbar dermoids, vertebral and cardiac anomalies, and hypoplasia of the lungs.
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.