Appendicectomy for recurrent and chronic appendicitis.
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2007-01Author
Hassan, S
Chavda, S K
Magoha, G A
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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.
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http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/11011http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17326897
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Trop Doct. 2007 Jan;37(1):56-7.Publisher
Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi.
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10378]