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Acute appendicitis is rarely the initial presentation of cecal cancer in the elderly patient

✍ Scribed by Dr. Lawrence S. Bizer

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 192 KB
Volume: 54
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-4790
DOI: 10.1002/jso.2930540112

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✦ Synopsis

Acute appendicitis is rarely the initial presentation of carcinoma of the cecum in elderly patients. A 20-year retrospective review of all patients 65 years of age or older presenting with proven acute appendicitis at the Montefiore Medical Center confirms this opinion. In only 1.8% of patients was acute appendicitis the initial presentation of an underlying carcinoma of the cecum.

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