Giant appendix as result of chronic appendicitis : report of a case
| Journal | Volume 73 - 2010 |
| Issue | Fasc.3 - Letters |
| Author(s) | E. Pulvirenti, A. Toro, I. Di Carlo |
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| Department of Surgical Sciences, Organ Transplantation and Advanced Technologies, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. |
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During operations, surgeons often find a wide range of appendix sizes in patients with varying body dimen- sion (1). The appendix length of male patients is longer than those of females with a mean of 7.5 cm and 6.5 cm respectively1. Anyway, it is rare that the appendix match- es the caecum and ascending colon in length, and, even if some appendices of more than 22 cm in length are described in literature, the only works available are too old or based on non-scientific references (2). |
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