Idiopathic granulomatous appendicitis. Report of five cases, one of which presented as migratory arthritis.
The clinical presentation of acute appendicitis and the idiopathic granulomatous variety are, as a rule, indistinguishable. Five patients with idiopathic granulomatous appendicitis, treated during past decade, had histological acute and chronic appendicitis abounding with granulomas. Investigations not disclosing a systemic or enteric granulomatous disease and the patients' long-term complete postoperative recovery support the diagnosis of idiopathic granulomatous appendicitis.
Naschitz
J E
JE
Department of Medicine, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
Yeshurun
D
D
Rosner
I
I
Rozenbaum
M
M
Misselevich
I
I
Boss
J H
JH
D000328:Adult; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001065:Appendix / Q000473:pathology*; D016918:Arthritis, Reactive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*