Difference between revisions of "Vermiform appendix"

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*** See ''[[adenovirus appendicitis]]''.
*** See ''[[adenovirus appendicitis]]''.


Images:
Note:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appendicitis_-_low_mag.jpg Appendicitis - low mag. (WC)].
*Eosinophils are very common.<ref name=pmid9444860>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Aravindan | first1 = KP. | title = Eosinophils in acute appendicitis: possible significance. | journal = Indian J Pathol Microbiol | volume = 40 | issue = 4 | pages = 491-8 | month = Oct | year = 1997 | doi =  | PMID = 9444860 }}</ref>
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appendicitis_-_very_high_mag.jpg Appendicitis - very high mag. (WC)].
**Appendices with eosinophils but no apparent [[neutrophil]]s probably represent the same process.<ref name=pmid20551528>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Aravindan | first1 = KP. | last2 = Vijayaraghavan | first2 = D. | last3 = Manipadam | first3 = MT. | title = Acute eosinophilic appendicitis and the significance of eosinophil - Edema lesion. | journal = Indian J Pathol Microbiol | volume = 53 | issue = 2 | pages = 258-61 | month =  | year =  | doi = 10.4103/0377-4929.64343 | PMID = 20551528 }}</ref>


====DDx====
DDx:
*Mucinous tumour.
*Mucinous tumour.
*[[Neuroendocrine tumour]].
*[[Neuroendocrine tumour]].
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*[[Crohn's disease]] of the appendix.
*[[Crohn's disease]] of the appendix.
**Approximately of 40% colectomies for CD (that include an appendix) have involvement of the appendix.<ref name=pmid11956821>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Stangl | first1 = PC. | last2 = Herbst | first2 = F. | last3 = Birner | first3 = P. | last4 = Oberhuber | first4 = G. | title = Crohn's disease of the appendix. | journal = Virchows Arch | volume = 440 | issue = 4 | pages = 397-403 | month = Apr | year = 2002 | doi = 10.1007/s004280100532 | PMID = 11956821 }}</ref>
**Approximately of 40% colectomies for CD (that include an appendix) have involvement of the appendix.<ref name=pmid11956821>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Stangl | first1 = PC. | last2 = Herbst | first2 = F. | last3 = Birner | first3 = P. | last4 = Oberhuber | first4 = G. | title = Crohn's disease of the appendix. | journal = Virchows Arch | volume = 440 | issue = 4 | pages = 397-403 | month = Apr | year = 2002 | doi = 10.1007/s004280100532 | PMID = 11956821 }}</ref>
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appendicitis_-_low_mag.jpg Appendicitis - low mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appendicitis_-_very_high_mag.jpg Appendicitis - very high mag. (WC)].


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