| dc.contributor.author | Hassan, S | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chavda, S K | |
| dc.contributor.author | Magoha, G A | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-24T13:09:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-01 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Trop Doct. 2007 Jan;37(1):56-7. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/11011 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17326897 | |
| dc.description.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. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | Appendicectomy | en |
| dc.subject | appendicitis. | en |
| dc.title | Appendicectomy for recurrent and chronic appendicitis. | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| local.publisher | Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi. | en |
