Histopathological Findings in Appendectomy Specimens : A Retrospective Clinicopathological Analysis

Histopathological Analysis of Schistosomiasis in the Gastrointestinal Tract With First Record of Schistosomal Appendicitis From Sohag, Upper Egypt

“…In the present study, 3.3% of surgically removed appendices were diagnosed as chronic schistosomal appendicitis. This correlated with Abdellatif et al (2015) who detected 3% bilharzial granulomas of the appendix and Hedaya et al (2012) who reported that the retrospective study of appendectomies revealed 11/251 (4.38%) with para-sitic infection, 1.19% of them had Schistosoma spp. eggs.…”

“…As most of the previously mentioned studies which identified S. haematobium as the cause of appendicitis were from African countries, the present authors believe that the causative agent may be S. intercalatum which is a ter-minalspined intestinal schistosome common in Central and South African countries. Also, it was often difficult to distinguish between terminal and lateral spined eggs in cross sections, many reports of schistosomal appendicitis were recorded as to be due to schistosomal eggs without identifying the species (Badmos et al, 2006;Kalyana et al, 2008;Adisa et al, 2009;Nwagbara et al, 2011;Hedaya et al, 2012;Zakaria et al, 2013;Abdeel Latif et al, 2015;Abo-Alha-ssan et al, 2016). Hence, the present authors recommend the use of acid fast staining technique during histopathological studies that easily differentiate between eggs of S. haematobium and S. intercalatum.…”

Negative Appendectomy Rate and Risk Factors That Influence Improper Diagnosis at King Abdulaziz University Hospital

“…Our judge for NA based on inflammatory cells infiltration present under microscope on histopathology lab ( 29 ), in our study, histopathological examination of NA reports no pathological diagnosis (60%), lymphoid follicle (25%), fibrous obliteration (5%), fecalith (7.5%) and food impaction (2.5%) with no inflammatory cells have been noted. In contrast, to study done in Egypt, the obstructed lesion has evidence of inflammation represent as fecalith (9.6%) and fruit seeds (1.2%) ( 30 ).…”

Should Every Appendecectomy Specimen Be Subjected to Histopathological Examination? A Retrospective Study of Histological Findings in Appendicectomy Specimens

“…1 The unusual histopathological findings in our study are Enterobius vermicularis (0.6%), Carcinoid tumour (0.6%) and Xanthogranulomatous appendicitis (0.6%). Similar incidence of appendicitis due to Enterobiasis was reported by Duzgun et al 0.4%, 10 but a higher findings by Nadir Mohammed et al 3.7%.…”