Evaluating the benefit of incidental appendectomy
Sahel medical journal (Print)
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23(2): 99-102, 2020. tab
Article
in English
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| ID: biblio-1271716
ABSTRACT
Background:
Surgeons sometimes perform appendectomies during abdominopelvic surgeries for surgical conditions unrelated to the appendix. A retrospective study of the histopathological diagnoses of incidental appendectomy specimens was performed to see the value of this practice. Materials andMethods:
Records of incidentally resected appendices submitted to the Histopathology Department of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital from January 2005 to December 2014 were reviewed retrospectively.Results:
A total of 129 histopathological reports of incidental appendectomy were retrospectively reviewed; 67 (51.9%) of the patients were male and 62 (48.1%) were female, giving a malefemale ratio of about 1.11. Fiftyfour cases (41.9%) had histologically normal appendices, while 75 cases (58.1%) had various histopathologically demonstrable lesions ranging from acute appendicitis (the most frequent with 27%) to neoplasia (one case of mucinous adenocarcinoma).Conclusion:
Significant pathology can be uncovered on histopathological examination of the clinically normal appendix. Incidental appendectomy is thus a useful procedure
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Index:
AIM (Africa)
Main subject:
Appendectomy
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Appendicitis
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Appendix
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Incidental Findings
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Nigeria
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
Country/Region as subject:
Africa
Language:
English
Journal:
Sahel medical journal (Print)
Year:
2020
Type:
Article
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