Histopathological findings in appendectomy specimens : a retrospective clinicopathological analysis

Abstract EN

The prevalence and clinical features of the various obstructive lesions in appendectomy specimens studied pathologically with special emphasis on unusual etiological findings were evaluated.

The clinic-pathological data of 251 patients who underwent appendectomies for presumed acute appendicitis from January; 2008 to December 2010 were reviewed retrospectively Among all appendectomies performed, eleven (4.38 %) specimens revealed incidental abnormal pathological diagnoses : Four cases (1.59 %) of Enterobiusvermicularis.

Ascaris lumbricoides two cases (0.79 %), schistosomiasis eggs in three cases 1.19 % and parasitic amebiasis in two cases (0.79 %).

None suffered tumor in any appendectomies specimens.

Mean age was lower, perforated and gangrenous appendicitis was absent and negative appendectomy rate was higher in patients with unusual appendix pathology.