[Unfinished surgery].
Appendicitis after appendectomy is rare and most often is due to incomplete appendectomy-stump appendicitis. Prophylactic appendectomy is rarely conducted as opposed to incidental appendectomy. The author focuses on the possibility of such an event by using an anecdotal case report and imagination.
Werbin
Nahum
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Surgery A. Ichilov Hospital Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. nwerb@hotmail.co.il
D001062:Appendectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*