Unusual duplication of appendix and cecum: extension of the Cave-Wallbridge classification.
Duplicated appendix has, to date, been classified into 3 types. The authors present a type of duplicated appendix not previously described. Surgical exploration was done in a 14-year-old girl who had an acute abdomen. Surgical exploration showed a duplicated appendix that arose from the normal appendix and ended in a thick-walled, inflamed, perforated muscular pouch. Duplicated appendix is a treatable condition that rarely occurs with colonic duplication and which should be considered in the differential diagnosis of lower abdominal pain.
Kim
E P
EP
Department of Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA.
McClenathan
J H
JH
D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000145:classification* / Q000601:surgery*; D000293:Adolescent; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001065:Appendix / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002432:Cecum / Q000002:abnormalities*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome