title: ["Cecal appendix with pellets"].
abstract: A case is presented of caecal appendix with birdshots, in a 38 years-old male patient, with a clinical picture of biliary pathology. An elongated and "heavy" caecal appendix was palpated during cholecystectomy and removed. The pathological study showed the presence of 99 ammunitions or lead birdshots in the appendicular lumen, with a diameter of 1-5 mm, without histologic evidence of active appendicitis. The patient was fond of hunting wild animals and is used to eat them pickled. Pertinent literature is revised and works are commented in relation to the incidence of different foreign bodies in the appendix lumen, clinical picture and complications.
authors.affiliation: Cátedra de Patología, Sanatorio Caroya, Córdoba, Argentina.
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Spitale
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: D'Olivo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001065:Appendix; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: "Apendice cecal con perdigones".