Congenital absence of appendix: A Surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis.
Congenital absence of the vermiform appendix is very rare in human beings with a reported incidence of 1 in 100,000 cases. Here, we report an incidence of a surgeon's dilemma to detect such a rare finding during surgery for a diagnosed case of acute appendicitis.
Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Bikasha Bihary
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Tripathy
Acute appendicitis; congenital absence of appendix; vermiform appendix
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