title: Adenocarcinoma of the appendix: an unusual disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe our experience with primary appendiceal tumours.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective study.
  
  
  METHODS
  University hospital, Israel.
  
  
  METHODS
  2520 patients who had appendectomies during the 14 years, January 1982-December 1996.
  
  
  RESULTS
  22 patients 5 male and 17 female, mean age 56.2 years, had primary neoplasms; 14 were carcinoid tumours and villous adenomas and were treated by appendicectomy only. Adenocarcinoma was diagnosed in 8 patients (0.3%), 5 after appendicectomy (0.2%) which is twice the reported incidence. They were all treated by right hemicolectomy. Seven of the patients were classified as Dukes' B and one as Dukes' C. All patients were alive and disease-free after a mean follow-up period of 57.4 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Right hemicolectomy is the treatment of choice for adenocarcinoma of the appendix.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery B, Rabin Medical Center, Golda Campus (Hasharon Hospital), Petah-Tikva, Israel.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hananel
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Powsner
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wolloch
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001063:Appendiceal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003082:Colectomy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome