Testicular Injuries

dc.contributor.author	Magoha, G A
dc.date.accessioned	2013-02-27T12:41:58Z
dc.date.issued	2007-08
dc.identifier.citation	East Afr Med J. 2007 Aug;84(8):353-5	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/12094
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	Testicular	en
dc.title	Testicular Injuries	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.embargo.terms	forever	en