Acute appendicitis is rarely the initial presentation of cecal cancer in the elderly patient.
Acute appendicitis is rarely the initial presentation of carcinoma of the cecum in elderly patients. A 20-year retrospective review of all patients 65 years of age or older presenting with proven acute appendicitis at the Montefiore Medical Center confirms this opinion. In only 1.8% of patients was acute appendicitis the initial presentation of an underlying carcinoma of the cecum.
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Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors