Dental extraction from an appendix: a case report and review of the literature

Smith, Aaron C. T.; Mouline, Omar; T, Mallet; Phillips, Gael E.; Hartslief, Merwe

doi:10.1111/ans.14065

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“…Cases were reported from 25 countries, with 18 cases reported from USA [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], seven from UK [5,[20][21][22][23][24][25], five from Japan [26][27][28][29][30] and Korea [31][32][33][34][35] each, three from the Netherlands [36][37][38] and from Turkey [39][40][41]. Australia [42,43], Ecuador [44,45], Italy [46,47] and Taiwan [48,49] each had two cases while the rest of the following reported only one case: Austria, Cameroon, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Kuwait, Morocco, New Zealand, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Spain [50][51][52][53][54]…”

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“…Cases were reported from 25 countries, with 18 cases reported from USA [ 8 - 19 ], seven from UK [ 5 , 20 - 25 ], five from Japan [ 26 - 30 ] and Korea [ 31 - 35 ] each, three from the Netherlands [ 36 - 38 ] and from Turkey [ 39 - 41 ]. Australia [ 42 , 43 ], Ecuador [ 44 , 45 ], Italy [ 46 , 47 ] and Taiwan [ 48 , 49 ] each had two cases while the rest of the following reported only one case: Austria, Cameroon, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Kuwait, Morocco, New Zealand, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Spain [ 50 - 64 ]. Table 1 illustrates characteristics of case reports (author, year, country, age and gender).…”

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Appendiceal Foreign Bodies in Adults: A Systematic Review of Case Reports

Abdalla¹,

Nour²,

Qasim³

et al. 2023

Cureus

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Adults can accidentally swallow foreign bodies (FBs) with food. In rare occasions, these can lodge in the appendix lumen causing inflammation. This is known as foreign body appendicitis. We conducted this study to review different types and management of appendiceal FBs. A comprehensive search on PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library and Google Scholar was performed to detect appropriate case reports for this review. Case reports eligible for this review included patients above 18 years of age with all types of FB ingestion causing appendicitis. A total of 64 case reports were deemed to be eligible for inclusion in this systematic review. The patient mean age was 44.3 ± 16.7 years (range, 18-77). Twenty-four foreign bodies were identified in the adult appendix. They were mainly lead shot pellet, fishbone, dental crown or filling, toothpick, and others. Forty-two percent of the included patients presented with classic appendicitis pain, while 17% were asymptomatic. Moreover, the appendix was perforated in 11 patients. Regarding modalities used for diagnosis, computed tomography (CT) scans confirmed the presence of FBs in 59% of cases while X-ray only managed to detect 30%. Almost all of the cases (91%) were treated surgically with appendicectomy and only six were managed conservatively. Overall, lead shot pellets were the most common foreign body found. Fishbone and toothpick accounted for most of the perforated appendix cases. This study concludes that prophylactic appendicectomy is recommended for the management of foreign bodies detected in the appendix, even if the patient is asymptomatic.

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Appendiceal Foreign Bodies in Adults: A Systematic Review of Case Reports

Abdalla¹,

Nour²,

Qasim³

et al. 2023

Cureus

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“…In patients without congenital anomalies of the digestive tract, it is known that objects smaller than 2.5 × 6 cm, having passed the esophagus, are expected to be spontaneously expelled in less than a week. Foreign body appendicitis is rare, with incidences hovering around one in 20,000 [1,8]. Less than 0.0005% of ingested foreign bodies are estimated to be retained on suspicion [6,[8][9][10].…”

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“…Foreign body appendicitis is rare, with incidences hovering around one in 20,000 [1,8]. Less than 0.0005% of ingested foreign bodies are estimated to be retained on suspicion [6,[8][9][10]. The expected complications depend on the constitution of the foreign body and its way of interacting with the medium in which it is housed.…”

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“…In addition, treating uncomplicated appendicitis conservatively with antibiotic therapy is not a recommended option since up to 95.4% of patients end up still requiring surgical intervention due to the complications developed [16][17][18][19][20]. Another point in favor of appendectomy occurs in the context of a failed endoscopic removal [8].…”

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Foreign Body Ingestion by a Psychiatric Patient Requiring an Appendectomy: A Case Report

Cuervo-Ollervides,

Serafio-Gómez,

Jauregui-Salazar

et al. 2023

Cureus

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In the surgical field, the correct approach to the psychiatric patient represents a medical challenge, given the special considerations to be taken in the individualization of their diagnosis and treatment. We present an uncommon case of a 29-year-old patient with associated psychiatric pathology who presented to the emergency room after the introduction of two foreign bodies into the nasal cavity. After the endoscopic removal of one of the foreign bodies, the X-ray follow-up shows a second foreign body into the esophagus, which progressed to the vermiform appendix, causing the classical clinical signs of acute appendicitis as a complication. The importance of considering that events treated by the otorhinolaryngology area may have complications for urgent management by the general surgery service is denoted in this article.

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Dental extraction from an appendix: a case report and review of the literature

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Appendiceal Foreign Bodies in Adults: A Systematic Review of Case Reports

Appendiceal Foreign Bodies in Adults: A Systematic Review of Case Reports

Foreign Body Ingestion by a Psychiatric Patient Requiring an Appendectomy: A Case Report

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