Are acute exacerbations of chronic inflammatory appendicitis triggered by coprostasis and/or coproliths?

AIM: To examine the role of coprostasis and coproliths in recurrent appendicitis. METHODS: We evaluated four hundred and twenty seven consecutive pathology reports of all appende-ctomy specimens from January 2003 to December 2004. Findings were categorised as showing acute appen-dicitis, acute recur...

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Main Authors: Sgourakis, George, Sotiropoulos, Georgios C, Molmenti, Ernesto P, Eibl, Charis, Bonticous, Stylianous, Moege, Jurgen, Berchtold, Christoph
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The WJG Press and Baishideng 2008
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Rapid Communication
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712849/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18506922
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.14.3179
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