The recommendations published in Nature Reviews Cancer are the result of a concerted focus by the Appendix Cancer ...

For example, it is possible that beneficial bacteria present in the appendix may decrease the risk of infections causing fatal diarrheal diseases, particularly in young children. Acute appendicitis is ...

Surgeons should be familiar with surgery of the cecum and appendix because the diseases of this region, especially appendicitis, are the most common indications for surgical exploration.

All removed appendices were analyzed pathologically and the patients were classified as being positive (acute appendicitis) or negative (normal appendix histology) appendectomy recipients.

and as a normal appendix based on pathology in the surgery group, as well as additional appendix-related procedures requiring general anesthesia in either group. All but one patient meeting the ...