1. Appendicectomy for recurrent and chronic appendicitis.
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Hassan, Saidi, Chavda, S. K., and Magoha, G. A.
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APPENDICITIS ,DISEASE relapse ,APPENDIX surgery ,HISTOLOGY - Abstract
In recent years, several reports have underlined the possible existence of chronic appendicitis. Up to 38% of spontaneously resolving acute appendicitis may recur. We studied 41 patients operated on between July 2000 and June 2001 for chronic and recurrent appendicitis at a teaching hospital in the city of Nairobi. The patients comprised 17.8% of all patients undergoing surgery for appendicitis during the study period. The majority (65.9%) were females. The faecolith rate was 51.2%. About half of appendices removed for these symptoms were normal at histology. Nearly 70% of the normal appendices contained faecoliths. Symptoms resolved in 90% of faecolith-containing appendices and 87.5% of non-faecolith-containing appendices that were normal on histology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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