Horseshoe anomaly of the appendix: a previously undescribed entity.
Anomalies of the appendix are extremely rare. The case presented here has not been previously described and is that of a "horseshoe" appendix in a 33-year-old man with sigmoid diverticulitis. This appendiceal variant cannot be classified into any of the existing categories of appendiceal anomalies.
Department of Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, N.Y.
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D000328:Adult; D001065:Appendix / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male